Time-lapse video of tracer percolation experiment in Svalbard seasonal snowpack, Ny-Alesund March 2023

This dataset contains a timelapse video of a tracer percolation experiment in the seasonal snowpack near Ny-Alesund, Svalbard, on 31st March 2023. The tracer percolation experiment was carried out by applying a coloured water tracer over a defined area and filmed using a camera and tripod. The video was recorded as part of an experimental field study ("Wet Finderprints") by Dorothea Moser to visualise the progression and retardation of meltwater liquid in near-surface snow.

The project was supported by an Arctic Field Grant through the Norwegian Research Council - Project No. 342165, RiS ID 12132. Dorothea Elisabeth Moser was supported by BAS Cambridge and the NERC C-CLEAR Doctoral Training Programme (grant no. NE/S007164/1).

Alternate title: Polar Data Centre (PDC) record GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/02029

Date (Publication): 2025-03-07

Citation identifier: http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/dms/metadata.php?id= / GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/02029

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
British Antarctic Survey		pdc@bas.ac.uk	Custodian
NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre	Moser, D., Gallet, J., Thomas, E., Spolaor, A., & Scoto, F.	pdc@bas.ac.uk	Originator

Maintenance and update frequency: Unknown

Keywords

NDGO0001

NERC OAI Harvesting

NERC_DDC

GCMD Parameter Valids

EARTH SCIENCE > Atmosphere > Precipitation > Snow
EARTH SCIENCE > Cryosphere > Snow/Ice > Snow Melt
EARTH SCIENCE > Hydrosphere > Snow/Ice > Snow Melt
EARTH SCIENCE > Hydrosphere > Snow/Ice > Snow Stratigraphy

BAS Free-text keywords

Melt
Percolation
Snow
Svalbard
Timelapse
Tracer experiment

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

Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere

Begin date: 2023-03-31

End date: 2023-03-31

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: Video quality: 720 pixels x 992 pixels (frame width x frame height)

Thermometers were placed at the following regular intervals: 63cm, 60cm, 55cm, 45cm snow height, equalling 2.5cm, 5.5cm, 10.5cm, 15.5cm, 20.5cm below the snow surface).