ICECAPS-MELT: Manual and Instrumented Snow Property Measurements at Camp Raven, Southwest Greenland (May and August 2024)

This dataset collection contains manual and instrumented snow measurements collected at Camp Raven, located on the southwest sector of the Greenland Ice Sheet, during May and August 2024.

The measurements were made as part of the ICECAPS-MELT (Integrated Characterization of Energy, Clouds, Atmospheric state, and Precipitation - MEasurements along Lagrangian Transects) project, which extends the long-term ICECAPS program to include surface and snowpack processes relevant to Greenland's mass balance and surface energy budget. These data provide detailed information on the stratigraphy and physical properties of the near-surface snowpack, offering insight into seasonal evolution and melt-related transformations.

The dataset collection includes:

- Manual snow density - from 1-m snow profiles (two profiles in May, one in August).

- Permittivity-based snow density - from a dielectric probe applied to the same profiles (two profiles in May, one in August).

- Manual shear strength - from mechanical shear strength measurements in 1-m profiles (two profiles in May, one in August).

- Snow specific surface area (SSA) - from field optical methods (two profiles in May, one in August).

- Manual snow properties - layer identification, hand hardness, and snow grain size and habit (two profiles in May, one in August).

Together, these datasets provide a comprehensive view of snow physical properties across the early melt season (May) and peak summer (August), allowing comparisons of density, strength, and microstructural characteristics. The Camp Raven observations complement the broader ICECAPS-MELT suite of measurements by linking surface meteorological and radiative conditions with snowpack evolution on the southwestern Greenland Ice Sheet.

This work was US-led, US-UK collaboration co-funded by the US National Science Foundation and the UK National Environment Research Council.

Date (Publication): 2026-01-30T09:39:58

Date (Creation): 2026-01-30T09:39:58

Citation identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/aef72bc18a244465a721646babf3018a

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Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Unavailable	Town, Michael	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Walden, Von	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Martin, Andrew	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Guy, Heather	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Sledd, Anne	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Olsen, Erik	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Shupe, Matthew	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Gallagher, Michael	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Hebson, Catherine	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Neely III, Ryan R.	Unavailable	Author
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	Custodian
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	Distributor
Unavailable	Walden, Von P.	Unavailable	Principal investigator
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	pointofContact
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	Publisher

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Keywords

ICECAPS-MELT
snow properties
snow density
shear strength
specific surface area
hand hardness
layer identification
snow grain size
snow grain habit
SnowPro
Infrasnow
Greenland
Greenland Ice Sheet

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atmospheric conditions

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Language: English

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Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere

Begin date: 2024-05-15T00:00:00

End date: 2024-08-22T00:00:00

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84

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	https://psl.noaa.gov/arctic/observatories/summit/	Historical and complementary ICECAPS Data

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	https://www.geosummit.org/	Information about Summit station

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	http://icecaps.ssec.wisc.edu/pubs.html	List of publications

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Date (Publication): 2010-12-08

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Date stamp: 2026-02-25T03:28:25

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