Programme for Monitoring of the Greenland Ice Sheet (PROMICE) automatic weather station data

Robert S. Fausto; Dirk van As; Kenneth D. Mankoff; Baptiste Vandecrux; Michele Citterio; Andreas P. Ahlstrøm; Signe B. Andersen; William Colgan; Nanna B. Karlsson; Kristian K. Kjeldsen; Niels J. Korsgaard; Signe H. Larsen; Søren Nielsen; Allan Ø. Pedersen; Christopher L. Shields; Anne M. Solgaard; Jason E. Box

doi:10.5194/essd-13-3819-2021

Programme for Monitoring of the Greenland Ice Sheet (PROMICE) automatic weather station data

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The Programme for Monitoring of the Greenland Ice Sheet (PROMICE) has been measuring climate and ice sheet properties since 2007. Currently, the PROMICE automatic weather station network includes 25 instrumented sites in Greenland. Accurate measurements of the surface and near-surface atmospheric conditions in a changing climate are important for reliable present and future assessment of changes in the Greenland Ice Sheet. Here, we present the PROMICE vision, methodology, and each link in the production chain for obtaining and sharing quality-checked data. In this paper, we mainly focus on the critical components for calculating the surface energy balance and surface mass balance. A user-contributable dynamic web-based database of known data quality issues is associated with the data products at https://github.com/GEUS-Glaciology-and-Climate/PROMICE-AWS-data-issues/ (last access: 7 April 2021). As part of the living data option, the datasets presented and described here are available at 10.22008/promice/data/aws .

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	3819-3845
Number of pages	27
Journal	Earth System Science Data
Volume	13
Issue number	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-3819-2021
Publication status	Published - 6 Aug 2021

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Fausto, R. S., van As, D., Mankoff, K. D., Vandecrux, B., Citterio, M., Ahlstrøm, A. P., Andersen, S. B., Colgan, W., Karlsson, N. B., Kjeldsen, K. K., Korsgaard, N. J., Larsen, S. H., Nielsen, S., Pedersen, A. Ø., Shields, C. L., Solgaard, A. M., & Box, J. E. (2021). Programme for Monitoring of the Greenland Ice Sheet (PROMICE) automatic weather station data. Earth System Science Data, 13(8), 3819-3845. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-3819-2021

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