Citation:

PANGAEA.974483 (DOI registration in progress)

Name: Automated Weather Station measurements at Joyce Glacier, McMurdo Dry Valleys, 2008-2010
Published: 2025-03-20
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Keywords: Antarctica; AWS; Energy balance; glacier; McMurdo Dry Valleys; surface energy balance; weather station

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Published: 2025-03-20

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Abstract:

14-month record of automatic weather station (AWS) observations taken on Joyce Glacier in the McMurdo Dry Valleys. The data file includes both the variables measured at the AWS (relative humidity, temperature, radiation terms, wind speed and direction, surface height change) and surface energy balance and ablation terms derived from the AWS data using surface energy balance modelling (e.g. sensible and turbulent heat fluxes, surface and internal melt). The AWS was installed on Joyce Glacier at (-78.02075, 163.79346667), roughly 400 m above sea level on 26 November 2008 and removed on 31 January 2010. Measurements were taken every 300 s and stored as 15 min averages on a data logger. The glacier tongue is located at the western end of the Garwood Valley, a coastal valley east of the Royal Society Range (about 25 km from McMurdo Sound). The station was set up in the ablation zone of Joyce Glacier, about 150 m from the north-east cliff. For more information about the variables and preprocessing see the corresponding paper.

Keyword(s):

Antarctica; AWS; Energy balance; glacier; McMurdo Dry Valleys; surface energy balance; weather station

Related to:

Hofsteenge, Marte Gé; Cullen, Nicolas J; Reijmer, Carleen H; van den Broeke, Michiel R; Katurji, Marwan; Orwin, J F (2022): The surface energy balance during foehn events at Joyce Glacier, McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica. The Cryosphere, 16(12), 5041-5059, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-5041-2022

Funding:

Antarctica New Zealand, grant/award no. K064: Logistics funding for S. Fitzsimons and J. F. Orwin

Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE), grant/award no. ANTA1801

Royal Society Te Apārangi, grant/award no. RDF-UOC1701

Coverage:

Latitude: -78.020750 * Longitude: 163.793467

Date/Time Start: 2008-11-26T00:15:00 * Date/Time End: 2010-01-31T00:00:00

Minimum HEIGHT above ground: 2 m * Maximum HEIGHT above ground: 2 m

Event(s):

AWS_JoyceGlacier * Latitude: -78.020750 * Longitude: 163.793467 * Date/Time Start: 2008-11-26T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 2010-01-31T00:00:00 * Elevation: 400.0 m * Method/Device: Automatic weather station (AWS) * Comment: Joyce Glacier at (000, 67

Parameter(s):

#	Name	Short Name	Unit	Principal Investigator	Method/Device	Comment
1	DATE/TIME	Date/Time		Hofsteenge, Marte Gé		Geocode
2	HEIGHT above ground	Height	m	Hofsteenge, Marte Gé		Geocode – unless otherwise indicated
3	Wind direction	dd	deg	Hofsteenge, Marte Gé	Anemometer
4	Wind speed	ff	m/s	Hofsteenge, Marte Gé	Anemometer
5	Wind speed at 10 m height	FF10	m/s	Hofsteenge, Marte Gé	Anemometer	rescaled to 10 m
6	Sublimation	Sublimation	mm w.e.	Hofsteenge, Marte Gé	Modeled
7	Humidity, relative	RH	%	Hofsteenge, Marte Gé
8	Humidity, specific	Humidity spec	g/kg	Hofsteenge, Marte Gé
9	Temperature, air	TTT	°C	Hofsteenge, Marte Gé
10	Pressure, atmospheric	PPPP	hPa	Hofsteenge, Marte Gé	Barometer (BARO)
11	Short-wave downward (GLOBAL) radiation	SWD	W/m²	Hofsteenge, Marte Gé	Pyranometer (PYRA)
12	Short-wave net radiation	SW net	W/m²	Hofsteenge, Marte Gé	Pyranometer (PYRA)
13	Short-wave upward (REFLEX) radiation	SWU	W/m²	Hofsteenge, Marte Gé	Pyranometer (PYRA)
14	Short-wave downward (GLOBAL) radiation, penetrated	SWD pen	W/m²	Hofsteenge, Marte Gé	Modeled	part of the SWD radiation which penetrated through snow/ice
15	Albedo	Albedo		Hofsteenge, Marte Gé
16	Long-wave downward radiation	LWD	W/m²	Hofsteenge, Marte Gé	Pyrgeometer (PYRG)
17	Long-wave net radiation	LW net	W/m²	Hofsteenge, Marte Gé	Pyrgeometer (PYRG)
18	Long-wave upward radiation	LWU	W/m²	Hofsteenge, Marte Gé	Modeled
19	Long-wave upward radiation	LWU	W/m²	Hofsteenge, Marte Gé	Pyrgeometer (PYRG)	observed
20	Height, relative	Height rel	m	Hofsteenge, Marte Gé		AWS surface height
21	Height, relative	Height rel	m	Hofsteenge, Marte Gé	Modeled	surface height
22	Heat, flux, latent	Qe	W/m²	Hofsteenge, Marte Gé	Modeled
23	Heat, flux, sensible	Qh	W/m²	Hofsteenge, Marte Gé	Modeled
24	Melt rate in water equivalent	Melt rate	mm w.e.	Hofsteenge, Marte Gé	Modeled	total
25	Melt rate in water equivalent	Melt rate	mm w.e.	Hofsteenge, Marte Gé	Modeled	surface
26	Ground heat, flux	Ground heat flux	W/m²	Hofsteenge, Marte Gé	Modeled	G
27	Melt energy	Melt E	W/m²	Hofsteenge, Marte Gé	Modeled
28	Runoff	Runoff	mm	Hofsteenge, Marte Gé	Modeled

License:

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY-4.0)

Status:

Curation Level: Enhanced curation (CurationLevelC)

Size:

1075774 data points

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