Automatic weather station data collected from 2003 to 2021 at the Greenland ice sheet along the K-transect, West-Greenland

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Automatic weather station data collected from 2003 to 2021 at the Greenland ice sheet along the K-transect, West-Greenland

We present 18 years (2003-2021) of automatic weather station (AWS) data, collected along the K-transect near Kangerlussuaq in west Greenland. The transect runs from east to west, roughly perpendicular to the ice sheet edge at about 67° N. The K-transect originated from the Greenland Ice Margin Experiments (GIMEX), held in the summers of 1990 and 1991. Until recently, surface mass balance and ice velocity measurements were performed at nine locations along the K-transect, of which four are equipped with AWS: two in the ablation zone at approximately 500 m and 1,000 m asl, one at the approximate equilibrium-line altitude (~1,500 m asl), and one in the lower accumulation zone (~1,850 m asl) at distances of 5, 38, 88, and 140 km from the ice edge, respectively. Here, we present (mostly) half hourly UTC based AWS measurements from these four sites containing temperature/humidity, windspeed/direction, all four radiation components and atmospheric pressure. All data are corrected and quality controlled, for details about this procedure please consult doi:10.1080/15230430.2017.1420954.

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Smeets, Paul C J P, van den Broeke, Michiel R, Boot, Wim, Cover, Giorgio, Eijkelboom, Mark, Greuell, Wouter, Tijm-Reijmer, Carleen H, Snellen, Henk, van de Wal, Roderik S W (2022). Dataset: Automatic weather station data collected from 2003 to 2021 at the Greenland ice sheet along the K-transect, West-Greenland. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.947483

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Imported on	November 30, 2024
Last update	November 30, 2024
License	CC-BY-4.0
Source	https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.947483
Author	Smeets, Paul C J P
Given Name	Paul C J P
Family Name	Smeets
More Authors	van den Broeke, Michiel R Boot, Wim Cover, Giorgio Eijkelboom, Mark Greuell, Wouter Tijm-Reijmer, Carleen H Snellen, Henk van de Wal, Roderik S W
Source Creation	2022
Publication Year	2022
Resource Type	application/zip - filename: Smeets-etal_2022
Subject Areas	Name: Ecology Name: LandSurface
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