Citation:

PANGAEA.965729

Name: Fixed date winter (April 30) point mass balance (snow pits) of Venedigerkees, Austria, 2024
Published: 2025-12-08
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Keywords: Glacier mass balance; LTER; Mountain meteorology

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Published: 2025-12-08

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Keyword(s):

Glacier mass balance; LTER; Mountain meteorology

Documentation:

Read Me - Point mass balances of Mullwitzkees and Venedigerkees

Coverage:

Latitude: 47.123300 * Longitude: 12.343900

Date/Time Start: 2023-10-01T12:00:00 * Date/Time End: 2024-05-01T12:00:00

Event(s):

VK * Latitude: 47.123300 * Longitude: 12.343900 * Location: Venedigerkees, Hohe Tauern, Austria

Parameter(s):

#	Name	Short Name	Unit	Principal Investigator	Method/Device	Comment
1	Name	Name		Stocker-Waldhuber, Martin		stake, sounding, probing
2	DATE/TIME	Date/Time		Stocker-Waldhuber, Martin		Geocode – begin of period
3	DATE/TIME	Date/Time		Stocker-Waldhuber, Martin		Geocode – end of period
4	Duration, number of days	Duration	days	Stocker-Waldhuber, Martin		period length
5	Quality flag, date	QF date		Stocker-Waldhuber, Martin	see documentation	quality identifier for date
6	Cartesian coordinate, x	x	m	Stocker-Waldhuber, Martin		x-position of stake, EPSG:31255
7	Cartesian coordinate, y	y	m	Stocker-Waldhuber, Martin		y-position of stake, EPSG:31255
8	Cartesian coordinate, z	z	m	Stocker-Waldhuber, Martin		elevation of stake
9	Quality flag, position	QF pos		Stocker-Waldhuber, Martin	see documentation	quality identifier for position
10	Density, snow/firn/ice	Dens snow/firn/ice	kg/m³	Stocker-Waldhuber, Martin
11	Quality flag, density	QF rho		Stocker-Waldhuber, Martin	see documentation	quality identifier for density
12	Mass balance, point	MB point	mm w.e./kg/m²	Stocker-Waldhuber, Martin
13	Quality flag, measurement	QF measurement		Stocker-Waldhuber, Martin	see documentation	quality identifier for stake reading
14	Measurement type	Measurement type		Stocker-Waldhuber, Martin	see documentation	type of mass balance observation
15	Mass balance, point, uncertainty	MB point unc	mm w.e.	Stocker-Waldhuber, Martin		Uncertainty of point mass balance as square root of the sum of squares of the fractional uncertainties of Density and Raw Balanc
16	Reading uncertainty	Reading unc	mm w.e.	Stocker-Waldhuber, Martin		Reading uncertainty of point mass balance
17	Density uncertainty	Density unc	mm w.e.	Stocker-Waldhuber, Martin		Density uncertainty of point mass balance
18	Observer	Observer		Stocker-Waldhuber, Martin

License:

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

Status:

Curation Level: Enhanced curation (CurationLevelC)

Size:

32 data points

Data

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1 Name (stake, sounding, probing)	2 Date/Time (begin of period)	3 Date/Time (end of period)	4 Duration [days] (period length)	5 QF date (quality identifier for date)	6 x [m] (x-position of stake, EPSG:31255)	7 y [m] (y-position of stake, EPSG:31255)	8 z [m] (elevation of stake)	9 QF pos (quality identifier for position)	10 Dens snow/firn/ice [kg/m³]	11 QF rho (quality identifier for density)	12 MB point [mm w.e./kg/m²]	13 QF measurement (quality identifier for stake ...)	14 Measurement type (type of mass balance observation)	15 MB point unc [mm w.e.] (Uncertainty of point mass bal...)	16 Reading unc [mm w.e.] (Reading uncertainty of point ...)	17 Density unc [mm w.e.] (Density uncertainty of point ...)	18 Observer
Schacht 1	2023-10-01T12:00	2024-05-01T12:00	213	1	-76914.9947	220959.9947	2564	2	550	3	669	5	2	304.9	300.2	53.5	Bernd Seiser
Schacht 3	2023-10-01T12:00	2024-05-01T12:00	213	1	-74641.3163	220105.3315	3187	2	508	3	2488	5	2	360.2	300.2	199.0	Bernd Seiser