Citation:

PANGAEA.987214

Name: Accumulation measurements from stake farm Neumayer Pegelfeld Spuso, Ekström Ice Shelf, Antarctica, 2015
Published: 2025-11-17
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Keywords: Antarctica; Neumayer Station; snow accumulation

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Published: 2025-11-17 • DOI registered: 2025-12-16

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Abstract:

This publication series contains the accumulation measurements from stake farm Pegelfeld Spuso on the Ekström Ice Shelf, Antarctica. The stake farm at the Air Chemistry Observatory (Spuso), located approximately 1.5 km to the south of the present Neumayer Station, has been in operation since September 2009. It consists of 16 aluminum poles (balise), placed in a grid of 4 x 4 with a spacing of 10 m. Readings have been carried out in approx. weekly intervals by the overwintering staff of the air chemistry observatory. Each data set in the series contains all measurements of each stake from one calendar year in a tsv file, the average accumulation of the stake farm for each measurement and the standard deviation of the stake farm for each measurement. The data sets are accompanied by figures illustrating the development of the cumulative accumulation since the beginning of the measurements to date, a bar chart of the monthly accumulation for the year and a collection of panels (one panel per measurement) illustrating the variation of accumulation within the stake farm.

Keyword(s):

Antarctica; Neumayer Station; snow accumulation

Related to:

Eisen, Olaf; Frezzotti, Massimo; Genthon, Christophe; Isaksson, Elisabeth; Magand, Olivier; van den Broeke, Michiel R; Dixon, Daniel A; Ekaykin, Alexey A; Holmlund, Per; Kameda, Takao; Karlöf, Lars; Kaspari, Susan D; Lipenkov, Vladimir Ya; Oerter, Hans; Takahashi, Shuhei; Vaughan, David G (2008): Ground-based measurements of spatial and temporal variability of snow accumulation in East Antarctica. Reviews of Geophysics, 46(2), 2006RG000218, https://doi.org/10.1029/2006RG000218

Reppert, Valerie (2024): Climate Signals from Neumayer, Coastal Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica: A 33-Year Statistical Analysis of Snow Accumulation in a Stake Farm [thesis]. Faculty of Geo and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Innsbruck, https://resolver.obvsg.at/urn:nbn:at:at-ubi:1-164880

Reppert, Valerie (2025): Climate Signals from NEUMAYER, Coastal Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica: A 33-Year Statistical Analysis of Snow Accumulation in a Stake Farm. Berichte zur Polar- und Meeresforschung = Reports on Polar and Marine Research, 792, 89 pp, https://doi.org/10.57738/BZPM_0792_2025

Further details:

Comments for the 2015 dataset, stake farm Neumayer Pegelfeld Spuso (in German, csv format). NM05_2015_comments.csv

Figure: Annual cycle of accumulation by months in 2015, stake farm Neumayer Pegelfeld Spuso. NM05_2015_acc_annual_cycle.png

Figure: Cumulative accumulation between 1991 and 2015, stake farm Neumayer Pegelfeld Spuso. NM05_2015_acc_cumulative_accumulation.png

Figure: Variation of accumulation within the stake farm in 2015, stake farm Neumayer Pegelfeld Spuso. NM05_2015_acc_deviation_per_stake.png

Funding:

Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven (AWI), grant/award no. AWI_ANT_8: Quasi-Long-Term Observatory Glaciology at Neumayer station

Coverage:

Latitude: -70.682000 * Longitude: -8.262200

Date/Time Start: 2015-01-01T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 2015-12-31T00:00:00

Event(s):

NM05 (Pegelfeld Spuso) * Latitude: -70.690000 * Longitude: -8.270000 * Location: Ekström Ice Shelf * Campaign: * Basis: NEUMAYER III * Method/Device: Stake (STAKE)

Parameter(s):

#	Name	Short Name	Unit	Principal Investigator	Method/Device	Comment
1	DATE/TIME	Date/Time		Eisen, Olaf		Geocode
2	LATITUDE	Latitude		Eisen, Olaf		Geocode
3	LONGITUDE	Longitude		Eisen, Olaf		Geocode
4	Height, stake	H stake	cm	Eisen, Olaf	Snow height measurement, stakes	st.1
5	Height, stake	H stake	cm	Eisen, Olaf	Snow height measurement, stakes	st.2
6	Height, stake	H stake	cm	Eisen, Olaf	Snow height measurement, stakes	st.3
7	Height, stake	H stake	cm	Eisen, Olaf	Snow height measurement, stakes	st.4
8	Height, stake	H stake	cm	Eisen, Olaf	Snow height measurement, stakes	st.5
9	Height, stake	H stake	cm	Eisen, Olaf	Snow height measurement, stakes	st.6
10	Height, stake	H stake	cm	Eisen, Olaf	Snow height measurement, stakes	st.7
11	Height, stake	H stake	cm	Eisen, Olaf	Snow height measurement, stakes	st.8
12	Height, stake	H stake	cm	Eisen, Olaf	Snow height measurement, stakes	st.9
13	Height, stake	H stake	cm	Eisen, Olaf	Snow height measurement, stakes	st.10
14	Height, stake	H stake	cm	Eisen, Olaf	Snow height measurement, stakes	st.11
15	Height, stake	H stake	cm	Eisen, Olaf	Snow height measurement, stakes	st.12
16	Height, stake	H stake	cm	Eisen, Olaf	Snow height measurement, stakes	st.13
17	Height, stake	H stake	cm	Eisen, Olaf	Snow height measurement, stakes	st.14
18	Height, stake	H stake	cm	Eisen, Olaf	Snow height measurement, stakes	st.15
19	Height, stake	H stake	cm	Eisen, Olaf	Snow height measurement, stakes	st.16
20	Height, stake, mean	H stake mean	cm	Eisen, Olaf
21	Height, stake, standard deviation	H stake std dev	cm	Eisen, Olaf
22	Accumulation of snow	Acc snow	cm	Eisen, Olaf
23	Accumulation of snow, error	Acc snow e	±	Eisen, Olaf

License:

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY-4.0) (License comes into effect after moratorium ends)

Status:

Curation Level: Enhanced curation (CurationLevelC)

Size:

1060 data points

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