Identification info

Metadata Language

English (en)

Dataset Reference Date ()

2020-08-24

Identifier

http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13607659

Maintenance and update frequency

notPlanned

GEMET - INSPIRE themes

• Geology

BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences

• Weather

• Observatories

• Meteorological stations

• Meteorology

Keywords

• NERC_DDC

Limitations on Public Access

otherRestrictions

Other constraints

licenceOGL

Other constraints

Available under the Open Government Licence subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying the reproduced NERC materials "Contains NERC materials ©NERC [year]"

Use constraints

otherRestrictions

Other constraints

The copyright of materials derived from the British Geological Survey's work is vested in the Natural Environment Research Council [NERC]. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a retrieval system of any nature, without the prior permission of the copyright holder, via the BGS Intellectual Property Rights Manager. Use by customers of information provided by the BGS, is at the customer's own risk. In view of the disparate sources of information at BGS's disposal, including such material donated to BGS, that BGS accepts in good faith as being accurate, the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) gives no warranty, expressed or implied, as to the quality or accuracy of the information supplied, or to the information's suitability for any use. NERC/BGS accepts no liability whatever in respect of loss, damage, injury or other occurence however caused.

Other constraints

Available under the Open Government Licence subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying the reproduced NERC materials "Contains NERC materials ©NERC [year]"

Topic category

• Geoscientific information

Extent

ICELAND [id=903000]

Dataset Reference Date ()

1979

Extent

IS

Dataset Reference Date ()

2009

Extent

ISL

Dataset Reference Date ()

2009

Begin date

2009-09-07

End date

2020-05-18

 

Distribution Information

Data format

• TXT files

  ()

 

Quality Scope

dataset

Other

dataset

Statement

The study operated three automated weather stations: AWS1 located 100m from the current glacier margin at 156m a.s.l. AWS3 50m from the icefall at 444m a.s.l. AWS4 situated on a clifftop overlooking the glacier at 858m a.s.l., close to the Equilibrium Line Altitude of the glacier.These were positioned at different altitudes to determine changes in weather parameters with height, thus producing eg, temperature or humidity gradients. All stations were wirelessly linked. On-site downloads were completed using Campbell Scientific LoggerNet 4.x series software. AWS1 maintained mobile phone telemetry enabling automatic remote downloads of data from all stations on a regular basis, and remote access for software updates and health checks. The stations were mounted on 1.5m Campbell Scientific tripods and used a Campbell Scientific CR800 datalogger. All AWS were solar powered.

Metadata

File identifier

adb1eb5c-94b1-14a4-e054-002128a47908 XML

Metadata Language

English (en)

Resource type

dataset

Metadata Date

2023-03-18

Metadata standard name

UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version

2.3