Runoff and basic water quality parameters at Adventdalen, Svalbard (2015-2016)

Adventdalen is a medium-sized (513 km2) catchment in continuous permafrost zone of central Spitsbergen. It is an important study area, but the river is highly unsuitable for monitoring runoff on account of the high sediment yield and extremely unstable channel sections in the large delta. This necessitates the estimation of runoff volume through the application of a suitable model. Daily runoff was therefore simulated using daily precipitation and temperature data series (1991-2016) and the HBV model. Daily water temperature and electrical conductivity were also monitored at the point of interest to provide basic water quality parameters alongside the runoff quantity data.

Funding was provided by the NERC grant NE/M019829/1.

Alternate title: Polar Data Centre (PDC) record GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01139

Date (Publication): 2019-03-22

Citation identifier: http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/dms/metadata.php?id= / GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01139

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
British Antarctic Survey		pdc@bas.ac.uk	Custodian
UK Polar Data Centre, Natural Environment Research Council, UK Research & Innovation	Nowak, A., & Randall, J.	pdc@bas.ac.uk	Originator

Maintenance and update frequency: Unknown

Keywords

NDGO0001

NERC OAI Harvesting

NERC_DDC

GCMD Parameter Valids

EARTH SCIENCE > Cryosphere > Frozen Ground > Permafrost
EARTH SCIENCE > Cryosphere > Snow/Ice > Permafrost
EARTH SCIENCE > Hydrosphere > Snow/Ice > Permafrost
EARTH SCIENCE > Hydrosphere > Surface Water > Runoff
EARTH SCIENCE > Hydrosphere > Surface Water > Surface Water Chemistry
EARTH SCIENCE > Hydrosphere > Water Quality/Water Chemistry > Conductivity
EARTH SCIENCE > Hydrosphere > Water Quality/Water Chemistry > Water Temperature

BAS Free-text keywords

Arctic
Conductivity
HBV model
Runoff
Svalbard
Temperature

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/.

Access constraints: Other restrictions

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

Environment

Begin date: 2015-01-01

End date: 2016-12-31

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

Distribution format

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
http		GET DATA

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: The calibration of De Geerdalen resulted in a Reff = 0.8454(Nash-Sutcliffe efficiency equation) with a mean difference between the observed and simulated discharge of -17 mm/year. The results of the De Geerdalen GAP optimisation can be found in the README file.

Note: there is more uncertainty over the winter rainfall events, whose impact were very marked in 2016. Therefore runoff data are included as two series, one with and one without runoff during the winter season.