Meteorological data from wind towers and photogrammetric data from survey pole and UAV used to estimate glacier aerodynamic roughness in Tarfala valley, Sweden, collected July 2017

Meteorological variables (wind speed, air temperature and wind direction) were collected using two wind towers. Photogrammetric data were collected using a pole-mounted digital camera and DJI Phantom 3 UAV. Sites were Storglaciaren and Sydostra Kaskasatjakkaglaciaren, both in the Tarfala Valley in Arctic Sweden. Fieldwork was carried out between the 8th and 20th of July 2017, by Mark Smith, Duncan Quincey and Jonathan Carrivick. Wind towers recorded data continuously for the study period, and photogrammetric data were collected from each site on alternate days. Data from both sources were used to estimate glacier aerodynamic roughness (z0) for a method comparison.

Funding was provided by NERC DTP grant NE/L002574/1

Alternate title: Polar Data Centre (PDC) record GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01290

Date (Publication): 2020-01-28

Citation identifier: http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/dms/metadata.php?id= / GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01290

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	Chambers, J.	pdc@bas.ac.uk	Originator

Maintenance and update frequency: Unknown

Keywords

NDGO0001

NERC OAI Harvesting

NERC_DDC

GCMD Parameter Valids

EARTH SCIENCE > Atmosphere > Atmospheric Temperature > Air Temperature
EARTH SCIENCE > Atmosphere > Atmospheric Winds
EARTH SCIENCE > Cryosphere > Glaciers/Ice Sheets > Glacier Topography/Ice Sheet Topography
EARTH SCIENCE > Cryosphere > Glaciers/Ice Sheets > Glaciers
EARTH SCIENCE > Hydrosphere > Glaciers/Ice Sheets > Glacier Topography/Ice Sheet Topography
EARTH SCIENCE > Hydrosphere > Glaciers/Ice Sheets > Glaciers
EARTH SCIENCE > Spectral/Engineering > Visible Wavelengths > Visible Imagery
EARTH SCIENCE > Spectral/Engineering > Visible Wavelengths > Visible Radiance

BAS Free-text keywords

SfM
aerodynamic roughness
glacier
microtopography
profiles
z0

Use limitation: This data is supplied under Open Government Licence v3.0 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/.

Access constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: This data is supplied under Open Government Licence v3.0 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/.

Language: English

Topic category

Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere

Begin date: 2017-07-08

End date: 2017-07-19

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: Not included in the cleaned/processed datasets are data from Stor for days 1-8. There were missing sensor height measurements on those days, and the wind tower was moved on day 8.

Photogrammetry data processing follows steps outlined in James et al. (2017).

Missing values are given the character NaN (not a number) as is the convention in MATLAB.