TAYSNWDNS

Taylor Glacier - Snow Density

Date Range: 

Tuesday, January 21, 1997 to Wednesday, November 13, 2013

File: 

TAYSNWDNS_0.csv (1.43 KB)

...or query the dataset by variables and dates of interest:

Variables
DATASET CODE
  • Label:
  • Definition: Code representing glacier snow density dataset
  • Type: Nominal
  • Missing values: None specified
GLACIER
  • Label:
  • Definition: NAME OF GLACIER WHERE MEASUREMENT WAS MADE
  • Type: Nominal
  • Missing values: None specified
STAKE
  • Label:
  • Definition: UNIQUE NUMBER FOR EACH STAKE ON GLACIER
  • Type: Nominal
  • Missing values: None specified
DATE_TIME
  • Label:
  • Definition: DATE OF DATA MEASUREMENT
  • Type: Date/time
  • Date format: MM/DD/YYYY
  • Missing values: None specified
LAYER
  • Label:
  • Definition: Unit of snow identified as distinct by hardness from other units in a snow pit.
  • Type: Nominal
  • Missing values: None specified
THICKNESS
  • Label:
  • Definition: Height of distinct layer in snow pit
  • Type: Physical quantity
  • Unit: centimeter
  • Maximum: Not specified
  • Minimum: Not specified
  • Precision: Not specified
  • Missing values: None specified
TOTAL_MASS
  • Label:
  • Definition: Mass of snow and bag measured by a scale in the field
  • Type: Physical quantity
  • Unit: gram
  • Maximum: Not specified
  • Minimum: Not specified
  • Precision: 0.1
  • Missing values:
    • NULL = None given
BAG_MASS
  • Label:
  • Definition: Mass of the bag before adding snow
  • Type: Physical quantity
  • Unit: gram
  • Maximum: Not specified
  • Minimum: Not specified
  • Precision: 0.1
  • Missing values:
    • NULL = None given
SNOW_MASS
  • Label:
  • Definition: Subtraction of the mass of the bag from the total mass
  • Type: Physical quantity
  • Unit: gram
  • Maximum: Not specified
  • Minimum: Not specified
  • Precision: 0.1
  • Missing values:
    • NULL = None given
DENSITY
  • Label:
  • Definition: Snow mass divided by 100cm3, which the volume of the sampling tool used to extract the snow sample
  • Type: Physical quantity
  • Unit: gramsPerCubicCentimeter
  • Maximum: 1
  • Minimum: 0
  • Precision: 0.1
  • Missing values:
    • NULL = None given
WEIGHTED_DENSITY
  • Label:
  • Definition: the density times the thickness of the layer, which is used to weight the density if there are more than one layer in the pit
  • Type: Physical quantity
  • Unit: gramsPerSquareCentimeter
  • Maximum: Not specified
  • Minimum: Not specified
  • Precision: 0.1
  • Missing values:
    • NULL = None given
AVG_SNOWPACK_DENSITY
  • Label:
  • Definition: the sum of the weighted densities dived by the sum of the thickness of all the layers.
  • Type: Physical quantity
  • Unit: gramsPerCubicCentimeter
  • Maximum: 1
  • Minimum: 0
  • Precision: 0.1
  • Missing values: None specified
SDC
  • Label:
  • Definition: (snow density competency) - a qualitative description of how readable the sample was extracted from the snow pit. One (1) indicates that a good sample, with little snow loss was collected, 2 indicates some loss of snow, while 3 indicates that obtaining a nearly complete sample was not possible due to either the lack of cohesion of the snow or the snow wasto hard to collect a sample.
  • Type: Nominal
  • Missing values: None specified
LAYER_DESCRIPTION
  • Label:
  • Definition: Field observations of the snow layer: hardness of the snow, and snow grain shapes and sizes.
  • Type: Nominal
  • Missing values: None specified
COMMENTS
  • Label:
  • Definition: Notes on snow density measurements
  • Type: Nominal
  • Missing values: None specified
GLSTKID
  • Label:
  • Definition: CODE FROM GLACIER / STAKE/ DATE OF COORDINATE MEASUREMENT (TO BE USED FOR GIS MAPPING)
  • Type: Nominal
  • Missing values: None specified
FILE NAME
  • Label:
  • Definition: RAW DATA FILE CONTAINING INFORMATION
  • Type: Nominal
  • Missing values: None specified
Data Source Details

Header lines: 

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Footer lines: 

1

Orientation: 

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Quote character: 

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Field delimiter: 

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Record delimiter: 

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Related sites: 

Taylor Glacier