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Vestfonna Ablation Data from May-August 2008 (Germany)

Entry ID: ABLATION_KINNVIKA

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Summary

Abstract: Data describe measured snow melt/ablation at a stake farm consisting of 24 ablation stakes (6 on De Geerfonna, 15 on the northwestern slope of Vestfonna, 3 on Ahlmann Summit).

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Geographic Coverage

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Spatial coordinates

	N: 80.05	S: 79.97	E: 20.12	W: 18.22
Min Altitude: 2 M ASL Max Altitude: 605 M ASL

Data Set Citation

Dataset Originator/Creator: Matthias Braun, Roman Finkelnburg, Marco Möller, Dieter Scherer, Christoph Schneider

Dataset Title: Vestfonna ablation data

Temporal Coverage

Start Date: 2008-05-16

Stop Date: 2008-08-10

Location Keywords

OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN

GEOGRAPHIC REGION > ARCTIC

GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR

Science Keywords

CRYOSPHERE > SNOW/ICE > SNOW MELT

CRYOSPHERE > GLACIERS/ICE SHEETS > ABLATION ZONES/ACCUMULATION ZONES

ISO Topic Category

CLIMATOLOGY/METEOROLOGY/ATMOSPHERE

Project

IPY > INTERNATIONAL POLAR YEAR

KINNVIKA > Change and variability of Arctic Systems Nordaustlandet, Svalbard

Data Set Progress

IN WORK

Originating Center

Data Center

Physical Geography and Climatology Group, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Data Center URL: http://www.klimageo.rwth-aachen.de
Dataset ID: Vestfonna snow data

Data Center Personnel
Name: MARCO MÖLLER Phone: +49 241 80 96473 Fax: +49 241 80 92157 Email: marco.moeller at geo.rwth-aachen.de Contact Address: RWTH Aachen University Department of Geography Wüllnerstraße betw. 5 & 7 City: Aachen Postal Code: 52056 Country: GERMANY