Sience Field
Meteorology and Glaciology => Glaciology
Project => Meteorology and Glaciology
IPY => Meteorology and Glaciology
| Overview | |
|---|---|
| Title | Surface mass balance (snow accumulation rate) at Dome Fuji |
| Sub-Title | Surface mass balance (snow accumulation rate) by snow stake method |
| Data Summary | The surface mass balance (SMB) at Dome Fuji, East Antarctica, was estimated using 36 bamboo stakes (grid of 6 x 6, placed at 20-m intervals) from 1995 to 2006. The heights of the stake tops from the snow surface were measured at 0.5 cm resolution twice monthly in 1995, 1996, 1997, and 2003, and once a year for the rest of the study period. To account for snow settling, the average snow density at the stake base during the measurements was used for converting the stake-height data to SMB. The annual SMB from 1995 to 2006 at Dome Fuji was 27.3 +/- 1.5 kg m-2 a-1. This result agrees well with the annual SMB from AD 1260 to 1993 (26.4 kg m-2 a-1) estimated from volcanic signals in the Dome Fuji ice core. |
| About Observation | |
| Spatial Coverage | |
| Data Location | Dome Fuji Station |
| Observaion Period / Temporal Coverage |
1995-02 - 2007-01 |
| Data Period | 1995 - 2006 |
| Observation Photo |
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| Data Details | |
| Data Name | Surface mass balance (snow accumulation rate) at Dome Fuji |
| Data Format | degital data |
| Data Recording / Acquisition Sampling |
two times per month from 1995 to 1997, and in 2003. one time per year for the rest period. |
| Observation Instruments | snow stake |
| Sample Data |
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| Publication | |
| Publication method | http://polaris.nipr.ac.jp/~dbase/300/Surface_mass_balance(kameda).xls Metadata/AMD : Surface mass balance (snow accumulation rate) at Dome Fuji Data Archives : Surface mass balance (snow accumulation rate) at Dome Fuji |
| Data Policy | |
| Data Center (Contact Person) |
Kitami Institute of Technology (Takao Kameda) |
| kameda (at) mail.kitami-it.ac.jp | |
| Related Organization | National Institute of Polar Research |
| Scientific Results / Publication |
Kameda, T., H. Motoyama, S. Fujita, S. Takahashi (2008): Temporal and spatial variability of surface mass balance at Dome Fuji, East Antarctica, by the stake method from 1995 to 2006. Journal of Glaciology, 54(184), 107-116. Takahashi, S. and T. Kameda (2007). Snow density for measuring surface mass balance using the stake method. Journal of Glaciology, 53(183), 677-680. |
| Digital Object Identifier(DOI) | |
| Creator | Takao Kameda |
| Publisher | National Institute of Polar Research |