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Observed terminus position and modelled ocean temperature, air temperature and runoff for 10 tidewater glaciers in east Greenland, 1990-2015
The data consists of observed terminus position and modelled ocean temperature, air temperature and runoff for 10 tidewater glaciers in east Greenland, 1990-2015. The glaciers are (listed from south to north) Mogens 3, Tingmjarmiut 1, AP Bernstorffs Glacier, Helheim Glacier, Kangerdlugssuaq Glacier, Borggraven, Vestfjord Glacier, Daugaard-Jensen Glacier, Waltershausen Glacier, Heinkel Glacier. Values are given as annual means. Glacier terminus positions are derived directly from remote sensing observations. Ocean temperature is based on the mean 200-400m temperature from GLORYS2V3 1/4 deg ocean reanalysis, obtained from the nearest cell of sufficient depth and adjusted to better agree with available in situ observations. Air temperature is based on the May-September mean of monthly temperatures from European Reanalysis (ERA)-Interim global atmospheric reanalysis, while Q is obtained from a 1-km surface melting, retention, and runoff model forced using ERA-Interim reanalysis. These data were compiled to study the relationship between environmental forcings and tidewater glacier retreat in east Greenland, as published by Cowton et al (2018).
Funding was provided by the NERC grants NE/K015249/1 and NE/K014609/1.
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- Date (Creation)
- 2019-01-16
- Date (Revision)
- 2019-01-16
- Date (Publication)
- 2019-01-16
- Date (released)
- 2019-01-16
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1.0
- Unique resource identifier
- https://doi.org/10.5285/4ba115ac-c146-46f5-9fa9-8be795dbb9db
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doi
- Unique resource identifier
- GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01131
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- Unique resource identifier
- NE/K015249/1
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- Unique resource identifier
- NE/K014609/1
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award
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Please cite this item as: Cowton, T. (2019). Observed terminus position and modelled ocean temperature, air temperature and runoff for 10 tidewater glaciers in east Greenland, 1990-2015 (Version 1.0) [Data set]. UK Polar Data Centre, Natural Environment Research Council, UK Research & Innovation. https://doi.org/10.5285/4ba115ac-c146-46f5-9fa9-8be795dbb9db
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No credit.
- Status
- Completed
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role University of St Andrews
Cowton, Tom Author NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre Point of contact
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- As needed
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- Completed
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Glaciers
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Greenland
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Ice sheets
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- Place
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East Greenland Greenland
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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- no limitations to public access
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- no limitations
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- Open Government Licence v3.0
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This data is governed by the NERC Data Policy: https://www.ukri.org/who-we-are/nerc/our-policies-and-standards/nerc-data-policy/
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This data is governed by the NERC data policy and supplied under Open Government Licence v.3
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No restrictions apply.
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url
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- Cross reference
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- Text, table
- Language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
- Environment
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- Begin date
- 1990-01-01
- End date
- 2015-12-31
- Supplemental Information
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It is recommended that careful attention be paid to the contents of any data, and that the author be contacted with any questions regarding appropriate use. If you find any errors or omissions, please report them to polardatacentre@bas.ac.uk.
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European Petroleum Survey Group (EPSG) Geodetic Parameter Registry
- Date (Publication)
- 2008-11-12
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role European Petroleum Survey Group
Publisher
- Unique resource identifier
- urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::3031
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6.18.3
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- Distributor contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre Distributor
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Name Version text/csv
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- Transfer size
- 16384
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Protocol Linkage Name WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
https://ramadda.data.bas.ac.uk/repository/entry/show?entryid=4ba115ac-c146-46f5-9fa9-8be795dbb9db Get Data
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Methodology:
The methods are described fully by Cowton et al (2018), and references therein. A summary is provided as a README file.
Data quality:
The time series contain sections of missing data. The air temperature and runoff time series are limited to the duration (1993-2012) of the surface mass balance modelling undertaken by Wilton et al (2017). The ocean temperature time series is capped by the temporal extent (2014) of the GLORYS2V3 ocean reanalysis product on which it is based. The terminus position time series contain numerous gaps in the 1990s, reflecting years during which no optical satellite observations are available.
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- 4ba115ac-c146-46f5-9fa9-8be795dbb9db XML
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- English
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- Dataset
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dataset
- Date stamp
- 2019-01-16
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ISO 19115 Geographic Information - Metadata
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ISO 19115:2003(E)
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre Point of contact
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