Meteorological data Weißseespitze/Austria, 2021-10-01 to 2022-09-30

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The meteorological data were recorded at Weißseespitze (3500 m) in the Ötztal Alps/Austria during the FWF project Cold Ice, P 29256-N36. This is the raw data as recorded, without quality control and without error corrections. Please be aware that before using the data the quality control is a necessary step before using the data in a scientific context. For example, at this high elevation site the albedo values recorded together with the radiation components contain values out of the range 0-1 because in the morning the sun directly shines into the lower sensors of the Hukseflux instruments which are designed to capture the reflected radiation. The AWS (Automatic Weather Station) was installed in October 2017 (46°50'46.56N, 10°43'4.59E, 3499 m) and mainly consists of Campbell Scientific (CS) components and a CR3000 data logger. Records of air temperature and humidity (Rotronic-HC2S3), air pressure (CS106 Vaisala PTB110), wind speed and direction (Young-05103-45), the energy balance (Hukseflux-NR01), snow accumulation and ice ablation by sonic ranging sensor (CS-SR50a) and ice temperatures in four different depths (CS225) are taken every minute and stored on ten-minute intervals with a UTC timestamp.The CS225 ice temperature sensors were initially installed at depths of -1m, -2m, -6m and -9m with reference to the 2017 ice surface as zero. The actual sensor depth thus depends on the ice ablation at the surface since 2017.Snow height is calculated as the difference between the SR50a instrument height and the measured distance to the surface. The instrument height is corrected and applied to the logger program regularly.

Drilling/repositioning of the Station:31 October 2017: initial installation of the weather station01 October 2019: repositionedMajor data gaps occurred during the following time periods:12 November 2018-29 November 2018: malfunctioning5 January 2019 - 16 January 2019: malfunctioning30 August 2019 - 1 October 2019: the station progressively tilted and eventually fell over.

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DOI https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.982919
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Creator Stocker-Waldhuber, Martin ORCID logo; Hartl, Lea ORCID logo; Seiser, Bernd; Bertolotti, Giulia (ORCID: 0009-0008-6895-160X); Gschwentner, Andreas; Fischer, Andrea ORCID logo
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2025
Funding Reference Austrian Science Fund https://doi.org/10.13039/501100002428 Crossref Funder ID ESP250 https://www.fwf.ac.at/en/research-radar/10.55776/ESP250 Glacier Albedo: In-situ processes & remote sensing footprints; Austrian Science Fund https://doi.org/10.13039/501100002428 Crossref Funder ID FWF P 29256-N36 doi:10.55776/P29256 Cold Ice; Austrian Science Fund https://doi.org/10.13039/501100002428 Crossref Funder ID FWF P 34399 - N https://www.fwf.ac.at/en/research-radar/10.55776/P34399 (C)old.Ice- Insights into late Holocene Alpine climate; Austrian Science Fund https://doi.org/10.13039/501100002428 Crossref Funder ID I5246 https://www.fwf.ac.at/en/research-radar/10.55776/I5246 Novel Dating of Alpine Glaciers by 39Ar-ATTA
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; Data access is restricted (moratorium, sensitive data, license constraints); https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Resource Type Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 945934 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (10.718 LON, 46.846 LAT); Weißseespitze, Ötztaler Alpen, Austria
Temporal Coverage Begin 2021-10-01T00:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2022-09-30T23:50:00Z