| station_name: | Hornsund |
| title: | Hansbreen glacier mass balance |
| summary: | Hansbreen surface mass balance monitoring programme started in 1988 on the initiative of the University of Silesia in Katowice. Since the beginning of XXI century programme is run under the umbrella of the Polish Polar Station Hornsund owned by the Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences. Hansbreen (HAB) is a medium-sized (56 km2) tidewater glacier located in the southern part of Wedel Jarlsberg Land, close to the Polish Polar Station in the fjord Hornsund. The glacier is ~16 km long, and elevations extend up to 550 m a.s.l. Surface mass balance monitoring started in 1988/89. Over the period of 1989-2017, the net surface mass balance has been continuously decreasing, with a mean of -0.36 m w.e. a-1. Frontal ablation, measured along the c. 1.5 km long ice cliff shows that mass loss by calving contributes substantially to the total mass loss (23-50%, i.e. additional ablation by an equivalent of c. -0.7 m w.e. a-1 on average) and varies interannually. SMB data are reported on a yearly basis to the World Glacier Monitoring Service. Dataset covers seasonal winter, summer and net mass balance. |
| keywords: | EARTH SCIENCE > CLIMATE INDICATORS > CRYOSPHERIC INDICATORS > GLACIAL MEASUREMENTS > GLACIER MASS BALANCE/ICE SHEET MASS BALANCE, EARTH SCIENCE > CRYOSPHERE > GLACIERS/ICE SHEETS > GLACIER MASS BALANCE/ICE SHEET MASS BALANCE, EARTH SCIENCE > TERRESTRIAL HYDROSPHERE > GLACIERS/ICE SHEETS > GLACIER MASS BALANCE/ICE SHEET MASS BALANCE |
| Conventions: | ACDD-1.3,CF-1.6 |
| id: | IG_PAS_SIOS_SCD_2_1_GLACIER_MASS_BALANCE |
| naming_authority: | Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences |
| history: | 2021-11-10T08:52:34.540+00:00 first write netCDF |
| source: | manual observations |
| processing_level: | 1.0 |
| comment: | No data marked as -999 |
| acknowledgement: | The data was collected as part of the environmental monitoring program of the Polish Polar Station Hornsund implemented by the Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences. |
| license: | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| date_created: | 2021-11-10T08:52:34.558+00:00 |
| creator_name: | Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences |
| creator_email: | data_steward@igf.edu.pl |
| creator_url: | https://www.igf.edu.pl |
| institution: | Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences |
| project: | SPUB Hornsund, RIS-ID: 11500 HANSBREEN SURFACE MASS BALANCE MONITORING |
| publisher_name: | Bartlomiej Luks, Piotr Glowacki, Dariusz Puczko, Michal Petlicki |
| publisher_email: | luks@igf.edu.pl |
| publisher_url: | https://www.igf.edu.pl |
| publisher_institution: | Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences |
| geospatial_bounds: | Polygon (77.13945 15.39938, 77.13945 15.7148, 77.01255 15.7148, 77.01255 15.39938, 77.13945 15.39938) |
| geospatial_lat_min: | 77.01255 |
| geospatial_lat_max: | 77.13945 |
| geospatial_lon_min: | 15.39938 |
| geospatial_lon_max: | 15.7148 |
| time_coverage_start: | 1989-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:00 |
| time_coverage_end: | 2021-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:00 |
| time_coverage_resolution: | P1Y |
| featureType: | timseries |
| keywords_vocabulary: | GCMD_Keywords |
| creator_type: | institution |
| creator_institution: | Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences |
| platform: | station |
| activity_type: | long-term monitoring |
| operational_status: | operational |
| time: | Array of 64 bit Reals [time = 0..32] long_name: year of measurement standard_name: time units: days since 1900-01-01 00:00:00.000 |
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| wmb: | Grid long_name: winter mass balance standard_name: winter_mass_balance units: m w.e. coverage_content_type: physicalMeasurement
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| smb: | Grid long_name: summer mass balance standard_name: summer_mass_balance units: m w.e. coverage_content_type: physicalMeasurement
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| nmb: | Grid long_name: net mass balance standard_name: net_mass_balance units: m w.e. coverage_content_type: physicalMeasurement
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