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Atmospheric boundary layer measurements from Athabasca Glacier field campaign, June 2015

Description: This dataset consists of data from a suite of instruments deployed on and around Athabasca Glacier in June 2015. The campaign aimed to capture the atmospheric circulation over the glacier, its interaction with the pro-glacial valley and impact on glacier surface energy balance. The dataset consists of timeseries from numerous automatic weather stations, surface energy balance and boundary layer profiling systems. The data has had some quality control applied, mainly to correct known instrument biases, fill missing data and resample to a common 30-minute timestamp. Data from a novel kite profiling system has been processed into mean profiles of temperature and wind speed for individual kite flights. The 12-day period of data runs from 2015-06-18 00:30 to 2015-06-30 00:00 Mountain Standard time.
Authors: Conway, Jono; Centre for Hydrology; University of Saskatchewan; National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research; ORCID iD 0000-0001-9276-7425
Helgason, Warren; Global Institute for Water Security; University of Saskatchewan
Pomeroy, John; Centre for Hydrology; University of Saskatchewan
Sicart, Jean-Emmanuel; Grenoble Alpes University
Johnson, Bruce; Global Institute for Water Security; University of Saskatchewan
Keywords: Surface energy balance
Atmospheric boundary layer
Mountain meteorology
Kite
SoDaR
RASS
Surface radiation
Automatic weather station
Glacier
Field of Research: 
Earth and related environmental sciences
>
Atmospheric sciences
>
Boundary layer meteorology
Publication Date: 2020-09-23
Publisher: Federated Research Data Repository / dépôt fédéré de données de recherche
Funder: Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC); Changing Cold Regions Network (CCRN); 433923-2012
Canada Excellence Research Chairs (CERC); Canada Excellence Research Chair in Water Security
Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI); Canadian Rockies Hydrological Observatory
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC); Snow Hydrology
Royal Society of New Zealand Marsden Fund; How do clouds modify the response of mountain glaciers to climate change?; MFP-NIW1084
URI: https://doi.org/10.20383/101.0281
Related Identifiers: 
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Geographic Coverage: 
Place Name
Athabasca Glacier
Province /
Province / Territory
Alberta
Territory
 
Country
Canada
Geolocation Box: 
West Longitude
-117.259263
East Longitude
-117.226175
North Latitude
52.216558
South Latitude
52.187639
Appears in Collections:Global Water Futures

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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Citation
Conway, J., Helgason, W., Pomeroy, J., Sicart, J., Johnson, B. (2020). Atmospheric boundary layer measurements from Athabasca Glacier field campaign, June 2015. Federated Research Data Repository. https://doi.org/10.20383/101.0281