Automated weather station locations for the PROMICE,
GC-Net, Glaciobasis (GEM), and other programs.

Station locations, installation (if necessary, decommission) date,
location type (tundra, ice sheet, local glacier), station type (one or
two levels of measurements) are available as attributes.

=== Original Data Source ===
PROMICE and GC-Net automated weather station data in Greenland

In 2007, Denmark launched the Programme for Monitoring of the
Greenland Ice Sheet (PROMICE) to assess changes in the mass balance
of the ice sheet. The two major contributors to the ice sheet mass
loss are surface melt and a larger production of icebergs through
faster ice flow. PROMICE is focused on both processes. Ice movement
and discharge is tracked by satellites and GPSs. The surface mass
balance is monitored by a network of weather stations in the melt
zone of the ice sheet, providing ground truth data to calibrate mass
budget models.

The Greenland Climate Network (GC-Net) was established in 1995 by
Prof. Konrad Steffen at CIRES, to obtain knowledge of the mass gain
and climatology of the ice sheet. The programme was funded by the
USA until 2020, at which point Denmark assumed responsibility for
the operation and maintenance of the weather station network. The
snowfall and climatology are monitored by a network of weather
stations in the accumulation zone of the ice sheet, supplemented by
satellite-derived data products.

Together, the two monitoring programmes deliver data about the mass
balance of the Greenland ice sheet in near real-time.

Data from the Programme for Monitoring of the Greenland Ice Sheet
(PROMICE) are provided by the Geological Survey of Denmark and
Greenland (GEUS) at http://www.promice.dk. They include sites
financially supported by the Glaciobasis programme as part of
Greenland Ecosystem Monitoring (https://g-e-m.dk/), maintained by
GEUS (ZAK, LYN) and by Asiaq Greenland Survey (NUK_K). The WEG
stations are paid for and maintained by the University of Graz.

See https://github.com/GEUS-Glaciology-and-Climate/pypromice for how
we make the data product.

Related publication:

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., and Box, J. E.:
Programme for Monitoring of the Greenland Ice Sheet (PROMICE)
automatic weather station data, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 13,
3819–3845, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-3819-2021, 2021.

Additional data:

To download data related to PROMICE and GC-Net, including historical
weather station data, see
https://dataverse.geus.dk/dataverse/PROMICE.

Citation:
How, P., Abermann, J., Ahlstrøm, A.P., Andersen, S.B., Box,
J.E., Citterio, M., Colgan, W.T., Fausto, R., Karlsson, N.B., Jakobsen, J.,
Langley, K., Larsen, S.H., Mankoff, K.D., Pedersen, A.Ø., Rutishauser, A.,
Shields, C.L., Solgaard, A.M., van As, D., Vandecrux, B., Wright, P.J., 2022,
"PROMICE and GC-Net automated weather station data in Greenland",
https://doi.org/10.22008/FK2/IW73UU, GEUS Dataverse.

[Accessed on: 2023-07-05]

Citation URL:
https://dataverse.geus.dk/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.22008/FK2/IW73UU