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Articles | Volume 15, issue 10
Articles | Volume 15, issue 10
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-4873-2021
© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-4873-2021
© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 15, issue 10
Research article
 | 
19 Oct 2021
Research article |  | 19 Oct 2021

Local-scale deposition of surface snow on the Greenland ice sheet

Alexandra M. Zuhr, Thomas Münch, Hans Christian Steen-Larsen, Maria Hörhold, and Thomas Laepple

Data sets

Snow height data generated with a Structure-from-Motion photogrammetry approach at the EGRIP camp site in 2018 Zuhr, A., Münch, T., Steen-Larsen, H. C., Hörhold, M., and Laepple, T. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.923418

Snow surface accumulation measured using SSA stake measurents, EastGRIP camp Greenland, May 2018 Steen-Larsen, H. C. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.921853

Snow surface accumulation measured using Bamboo stake measurents, EastGRIP camp Greenland, May 2016 Steen-Larsen, H. C. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.921855

Snow surface accumulation measured using manual stick measurents, EastGRIP camp Greenland, May 2018 Zuhr, A.,Münch, T., Steen-Larsen, H. C., Hörhold,M., and Laepple, T. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.931124

Digital elevation models generated with a Structure-from-Motion photogrammetry approach at the EGRIP camp site in 2018 Zuhr, A.,Münch, T., Steen-Larsen, H. C., Hörhold,M., and Laepple, T. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.936082

Day-to-day changes in the snow surface height derived from digital elevation models at the EGRIP camp site in 2018 Zuhr, A.,Münch, T., Steen-Larsen, H. C., Hörhold,M., and Laepple, T. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.936099

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Firn and ice cores are used to infer past temperatures. However, the imprint of the climatic signal in stable water isotopes is influenced by depositional modifications. We present and use a photogrammetry structure-from-motion approach and find variability in the amount, the timing, and the location of snowfall. Depositional modifications of the surface are observed, leading to mixing of snow from different snowfall events and spatial locations and thus creating noise in the proxy record.
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