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Snow chemical compositions, salinity, surface ozone, BrO and meteorology data at Eureka, Canada in spring of 2018/19

Surface snow samples were collected daily from a Canadian high Arctic location at Eureka, Nunavut (80N, 86W) from the end of February to the end of March in 2018 and 2019. The snow samples were collected at several sites representing distinct environments: sea ice, inland close to sea level, and a hilltop ~600 m above sea level. Ion Chromatography (IC) analysis was performed for most of the snow samples. Snow salinity measurement is mainly for surface snow. Surface ozone was measured at sea level (from the Zero Altitude PEARL Auxiliary Laboratory (0PAL)) and lower tropospheric BrO (0-4 km) was measured by MAX-DOAS instrument (at ~610 m located at the Polar Environment Atmospheric Research Laboratory (PEARL)).

This study was supported by the UK NERC Arctic office via two UK-Canada bursary programs: "The role of tundra snowpack chemistry in the boundary layer bromine budget at Eureka, Canada" (2018), and "A second investigation of the role of tundra snowpack chemistry in the boundary layer ''bromine explosion''" (2019). The Eureka MAX-DOAS BrO measurements made at the PEARL Ridge Laboratory by the Canadian Network for the Detection of Atmospheric Change (CANDAC) was primarily supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), and Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC).

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Polar Data Centre (PDC) record GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01746
Date (Publication)
2024-04-05
Identifier
http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/dms/metadata.php?id= / GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01746
Custodian
  British Antarctic Survey
High Cross, Madingley Road , Cambridge , CB3 0ET , UK
+44 (0)1223 221400
Originator
  NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre - Yang, X., & Strong, K.
High Cross, Madingley , Cambridge , CB3 0ET , UK
+44 (0)1223 221400
Maintenance and update frequency
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Keywords
  • NDGO0001
NERC OAI Harvesting
  • NERC_DDC
GCMD Parameter Valids
  • EARTH SCIENCE > Cryosphere > Snow/Ice
  • EARTH SCIENCE > Cryosphere > Snow/Ice > Snow/Ice Chemistry
BAS Free-text keywords
  • The Arctic
  • bromide
  • nitrate
  • snow chemistry
  • snow salinity
Use limitation
Data supplied under Open Government Licence v3.0 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/.
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Data supplied under Open Government Licence v3.0 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/.
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Topic category
  • Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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Begin date
2018-02-25
End date
2018-03-31
Reference system identifier
OGP / urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
Distribution format
Distributor
  Polar Data Centre - British Antarctic Survey
+44 (0)1223 221400
OnLine resource
GET DATA ( http )
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dataset Dataset

Domain consistency

Measure identification
INSPIRE / Conformity_001

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Explanation
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No
Statement

In the ionic analysis for 2019 samples, the limit of detection (LOD) is 3 times standard deviation of filter blank average peak area, and the limit of quantification (LOQ) is 10 times standard deviation of filter blank average peak area for all sequences (~40 samples analysed per sequence). The LOD of Br- is 0.200 um with a relative standard deviation of 0.023 um and the LOD of NO3- is 0.484 um with a relative standard of deviation of 0.037 um.

The accuracy of snow salinity as stated by the manufacturer is +/-0.001 psu at low salinities (<1 psu).

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GB_NERC_BAS_PDC_01746 XML
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Hierarchy level
dataset Dataset
Date stamp
2024-04-05
Metadata standard name
NERC profile of ISO19115:2003
Metadata standard version
1.0
Point of contact
  British Antarctic Survey
+44 (0)1223 221400
Dataset URI
http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/dms/metadata.php?id=GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01746
 
 

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