Surface mass balance along the K-transect in West Greenland

A 21-year record is presented of surface mass balance measurements along the K-transect. The series covers the period 1990-2011. Data are available at 8 sites along a transect over an altitude range of 390 - 1850 m at approximately 67° N in West Greenland. The surface mass balance gradient is on average 3.8 x 10**-3 m w.e./m, and the mean equilibrium line altitude is 1553 m a.s.l. Only the lower 3 sites within 10 km of the margin experience a significant increasing trend in the ablation over the entire period.

Supplement to: van de Wal, Roderik S W; Boot, Wim; Smeets, Paul C J P; Snellen, Henk; van den Broeke, Michiel R; Oerlemans, Johannes (2012): Twenty-one years of mass balance observations along the K-transect, West-Greenland. Earth System Science Data, 4(1), 31-35

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.779181
PID https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.39032.d001
Related Identifier IsSupplementTo https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-4-31-2012
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.3189/172756405781812529
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.779181
Provenance
Creator van de Wal, Roderik S W; Boot, Wim; Smeets, Paul C J P ORCID logo; Snellen, Henk; van den Broeke, Michiel R ORCID logo; Oerlemans, Johannes
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2012
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
OpenAccess true
Representation
Resource Type Supplementary Dataset; Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 326 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (-50.195W, 66.992S, -47.015E, 67.099N); West Greenland Margin
Temporal Coverage Begin 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z