Proglacial discharge measurements, Leverett Glacier, south-west Greenland

Measurements of water discharge, suspended sediment concentration and electrical conductivity during the melt seasons of 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012 in the proglacial river draining from the tongue of Leverett Glacier, a land-terminating glacier in the south-west of the Greenland Ice Sheet. The measurements were made in a stable bedrock section approximately 2 km downstream from the glacier terminus. Data loggers recorded measurements every 15 minutes from approximately May to August each year. Water depth (stage) was converted to discharge (Q) using season-specific ratings curves derived from repeat dye-dilution injections undertaken across the stage values. Suspended sediment concentration (SSC) was obtained by calibrating turbidity sensor readings with sediment samples taken in-situ and then filtered, dried and weighed. Electrical conductivity (EC) was recorded using a water conductivity probe; the data were filtered for bad values and corrected for temperature, but no smoothing was applied.

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Alternate title: Polar Data Centre (PDC) record GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/00840

Date (Publication): 2020-01-29

Citation identifier: http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/dms/metadata.php?id= / GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/00840

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
British Antarctic Survey		pdc@bas.ac.uk	Custodian
Polar Data Centre; British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environment Research Council; Cambridge, CB3 0ET, UK.	Tedstone, A.	pdc@bas.ac.uk	Originator

Maintenance and update frequency: Unknown

Keywords

NDGO0001

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NERC_DDC

GCMD Parameter Valids

EARTH SCIENCE > Cryosphere > Glaciers/Ice Sheets > Ablation Zones/Accumulation Zones
EARTH SCIENCE > Cryosphere > Glaciers/Ice Sheets > Glacier Mass Balance/Ice Sheet Mass Balance
EARTH SCIENCE > Hydrosphere > Surface Water > Discharge/Flow
EARTH SCIENCE > Hydrosphere > Surface Water > Surface Water Chemistry

BAS Free-text keywords

Greenland
discharge
electrical conductivity
proglacial
suspended sediment

Use limitation: This data is governed by the NERC data policy http://www.nerc.ac.uk/research/sites/data/policy/ and supplied under Open Government Licence v.3 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/

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Other constraints: This data is governed by the NERC data policy http://www.nerc.ac.uk/research/sites/data/policy/ and supplied under Open Government Licence v.3 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/

Language: English

Topic category

Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
Environment
Geoscientific information
Inland waters

Begin date: 2009

End date: 2012

Reference system identifier: OGP / urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326

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Distributor contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Polar Data Centre - British Antarctic Survey		pdc@bas.ac.uk	Distributor

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
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Hierarchy level: Dataset

Domain consistency

Measure identification: INSPIRE / Conformity_001

Conformance result

Title: INSPIRE Data Specification on unknown theme Guidelines

Date

Explanation: See the referenced specification

Pass: No

Statement: No special comments

Metadata

File identifier: GB_NERC_BAS_PDC_00840 XML

Metadata language: English

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Date stamp: 2020-01-29

Metadata standard name: NERC profile of ISO19115:2003

Metadata standard version: 1.0

Metadata author

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
British Antarctic Survey		pdc@bas.ac.uk	Point of contact

Dataset URI: http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/dms/metadata.php?id=GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/00840

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