NERC Data Catalogue Service
Ice motion measurements, south-west Greenland Ice Sheet (version 1)
From May 2009 to May 2013, seven dual-frequency GPS receivers were deployed along a 120 km-long transect in the south-west of the Greenland Ice Sheet. Two additional dual-frequency GPS receivers were deployed perpendicular to longitudinal ice flow at ~14 km inland: one 5 km distant from June 2011 to May 2013, and another 2.5 km distance from May 2012 to May 2013. Each receiver recorded position observations every 10 seconds or 30 seconds (depending on configuration), enabling resolution of horizontal and vertical ice motion. Sites were powered by solar panels and operated 24 hours a day during summer but shut down in the autumn. Absolute ice displacements at each site were obtained for each summer and winter period in the absence of continuous measurements. Position measurements were kinematically corrected relative to an off-ice base station using TRACK (Chen, 1999). Daily velocities were then obtained by differencing across 24-hour periods, whilst continuous velocities were obtained through application of a sliding 6-hour differencing window.
At each GPS site we also measured (1) the near-surface air temperature every 15 minutes year-round, (2) net seasonal ablation using ablation stakes, and (3) at several selected sites melt rates using sonic ranging sensors.
Funded by NERC, the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland and The University of Edinburgh.
Relevant grants: NE/F021399/1, NE/H024964/1
Studentships: NE/I52830X/1, NE/J500021/1, NE/H526794/1
Simple
- Date (Creation)
- 2015-11-20
- Date (Revision)
- 2015-11-20
- Date (Publication)
- 2015-11-20
- Date (released)
- 2015-11-20
- Edition
- 1
- Unique resource identifier
- https://doi.org/10.5285/d5eb7f17-c802-4dc9-abb0-9675dc63803a
- Codespace
- doi
- Unique resource identifier
- GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/00841
- Codespace
- https://data.bas.ac.uk/
- Unique resource identifier
- NE/F021399/1
- Codespace
- award
- Unique resource identifier
- NE/H024964/1
- Codespace
- award
- Unique resource identifier
- NE/I52830X/1
- Codespace
- award
- Unique resource identifier
- NE/J500021/1
- Codespace
- award
- Unique resource identifier
- NE/H526794/1
- Codespace
- award
- Other citation details
- Please cite this item as: None
- Credit
- No credit.
- Status
- completed Completed
https://www.bas.ac.uk/team/business-teams/information-services/uk-polar-data-centre/
- Maintenance and update frequency
- asNeeded As needed
- Maintenance note
- completed Completed
- Theme
-
- GPS
- Greenland
- ice flow
- ice motion
- Place
-
- Leverett Glacier/Russell Glacier, south-west Greenland Greenland
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
- Access constraints
- otherRestrictions Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- no limitations to public access
- Access constraints
- otherRestrictions Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- no limitations
- Use constraints
- license License
- Other constraints
- Open Government Licence v3.0
- Use constraints
- otherRestrictions Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- This data is governed by the NERC Data Policy: https://www.ukri.org/who-we-are/nerc/our-policies-and-standards/nerc-data-policy/
- Use constraints
- otherRestrictions Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- This data is governed by the NERC data policy and supplied under Open Government Licence v.3
- Use constraints
- otherRestrictions Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- Requests for data can be made via the UK Polar Data Centre (UK PDC) at BAS.
- Unique resource identifier
- url
- Codespace
- url
- Association Type
- crossReference Cross reference
- Unique resource identifier
- url
- Codespace
- url
- Association Type
- crossReference Cross reference
- Spatial representation type
- textTable Text, table
- Metadata language
- engEnglish
- Character set
- utf8 UTF8
- Topic category
-
- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
- Environment
))
- Begin date
- 2009-05-07
- End date
- 2013-05-12
Vertical extent
- Minimum value
- 445.0
- Maximum value
- 1712.0
Vertical CS
Vertical datum
- Supplemental Information
- It is recommended that careful attention be paid to the contents of any data, and that the author be contacted with any questions regarding appropriate use. If you find any errors or omissions, please report them to polardatacentre@bas.ac.uk.
Distributor
https://www.bas.ac.uk/team/business-teams/information-services/uk-polar-data-centre/
- Units of distribution
- bytes
- Transfer size
- 1
- OnLine resource
-
Get Data
(
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
)
Download data
- Hierarchy level
- dataset Dataset
- Statement
-
Methodology:
See the PhD theses of Tedstone (2015) and Bartholomew (2011) for information on the methodology, quality and lineage of this dataset.
Data collection:
Sensors: GPS, GPS receivers, shielded temperature probes, sonic ranging devices
- File identifier
- d5eb7f17-c802-4dc9-abb0-9675dc63803a XML
- Metadata language
- engEnglish
- Character set
- utf8 UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- dataset Dataset
- Hierarchy level name
- dataset
- Date stamp
- 2015-11-20
- Metadata standard name
- ISO 19115 Geographic Information - Metadata
- Metadata standard version
- ISO 19115:2003(E)
https://www.bas.ac.uk/team/business-teams/information-services/uk-polar-data-centre/
Overviews
Spatial extent
Provided by
