SnowEx23 Oct22 Laser Snow Microstructure Specific Surface Area Low-snow, Version 1
Data set id:
SNEX23_OCT22_SSA
DOI: 10.5067/CPQ2DA73IZVH
This is the most recent version of these data.
Version Summary
Version Summary
Initial release
Overview
This data set reports vertical profiles of snow reflectance and specific surface area (SSA) collected in October 2022 as part of the NASA SnowEx 2023 Alaska field campaign. Measurements were taken from three snow pits located within the Upper Kuparuk Toolik (UKT) field site, a coastal tundra environment in the North Slope region of the northern Alaska coastal plain. Reflectance was measured in situ using a 1310 nm integrating sphere laser device (IceCube) and converted to SSA during data processing (Gallet et al., 2009). SSA data collected from the same study sites in October 2023 and March 2023 are available as SnowEx23 Laser Snow Microstructure Specific Surface Area Data, Version 1 and SnowEx23 Laser Snow Microstructure Specific Surface Area Snow-off Data, Version 1.
Parameter(s):
REFLECTANCESPECIFIC SURFACE AREA
Platform(s):
GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS
Sensor(s):
IceCube
Data Format(s):
CSV
Temporal Coverage:
24 October 2022 to 24 October 2022
Temporal Resolution:
- Varies
Spatial Resolution:
- 1 meter
- 1 meter
Spatial Reference System(s):
WGS 84 / UTM zone 6N
EPSG:32606
Spatial Coverage:
N:
70.084
S:
68.5284
E:
-148.6127
W:
-149.5964
Blue outlined yellow areas on the map below indicate the spatial coverage for this data set.
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