Citation:

epic.40220.d001

Name: Table 1: Densities and snow loads for individual levels in 1967 and 1978
Published: 1981
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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Abstract:

The deformation of a 20 m deep firn pit in the accumulation area of Kesselwandferner was surveyed over aperiod of 11 years. Six or seven surveying markers had been installed at each of 14 levels. The survey shows tImt the shear strain rate is independent of depth and the originally circular pit cross section was changed into an ellipse. In the direction of the glacier flow, the diameter was increased, the strain rate being approximately independent of depth. Transverse to the flow, however, the diameter decreased, the strain rate becoming higher as the depth increased. The vertical strain rates responsible for thinning of firn layers decrease with depth.

Coverage:

Latitude: 46.845000 * Longitude: 10.789200

Date/Time Start: 1967-01-01T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1978-01-01T00:00:00

Minimum DEPTH, ice/snow: 2.00 m * Maximum DEPTH, ice/snow: 30.26 m

Event(s):

KWF (Kesselwandferner) * Latitude: 46.845000 * Longitude: 10.789200 * Elevation Start: 2700.0 m * Elevation End: 3500.0 m * Location: Kesselwandferner, Ötztaler Alpen, Austria * Method/Device: Sampling/measurements on glacier (GLAC) * Comment: Area: 3.9 km**2

Parameter(s):

#	Name	Short Name	Unit	Principal Investigator	Comment
1	Code	Code		Eisner, Heinrich
2	DATE/TIME	Date/Time			Geocode
3	DEPTH, ice/snow	Depth ice/snow	m		Geocode
4	Density, snow	Density snow	kg/m³	Eisner, Heinrich	reclaculated from Mg/m3 to kg/m3
5	Load	PO	kPa	Eisner, Heinrich

License:

Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC-BY-3.0)

Size:

84 data points

Data

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1 Code	2 Date/Time	3 Depth ice/snow [m]	4 Density snow [kg/m³]	5 PO [kPa]
11	1967	2.00	650	10
11a	1967	3.63	690	24
10	1967	5.58	730	37
10a	1967	7.16	750	49
9	1967	8.61	770	60
8	1967	9.71	780	68
8a	1967	10.21	785	73
7	1967	11.86	800	84
6	1967	13.58	815	100
5	1967	14.55	820	108
4	1967	15.85	830	117
3	1967	16.65	835	124
2	1967	17.53	840	133
1	1967	19.18	850	141
11	1978	18.30	845	139
11a	1978	19.35	850	147
10	1978	20.55	855	156
10a	1978	21.65	860	166
9	1978	22.55	865	174
8	1978	23.50	867	182
8a	1978	23.65	868	183
7	1978	24.85	872	191
6	1978	26.05	874	203
5	1978	26.80	875	208
4	1978	27.78	877	216
3	1978	28.42	878	223
2	1978	29.06	879	228
1	1978	30.26	880	237