On-Glacier Air Temperatures for Tsanteleina Glacier, 2015

Tsanteleina_Glacier_Air_Temperature_Data_2015.xlsx
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Data Generated on 13th May 2022

Data Curator: Dr. Thomas Shaw (Swiss Federal Institute, WSL, Switzerland)

Data Provider(s): Dr. Thomas Shaw (Swiss Federal Institute, WSL, Switzerland) thomas.shaw@wsl.ch
          Prof. Benjamin Brock (Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK) benjamin.brock@northumbria.ac.uk

Data period: 19th June - 15th September, 2015

Details:
Hourly data are generated for air temperature stations ('T-Loggers') distributed across Tsanteleina Glacier, Italy (45.4812°N, 7.0618°E).
Air temperatures (°C) were measured using Tinytag thermistors (accuracy +/- 0.2-0.35°C) housed in naturally ventilated Campbell MET20 / MET21 radiation shields.

Some stations fell over at times during the summer season due to differential ablation and tripod stability.
  Filtering of this data therefore leaves gaps (NaNs) for various stations at different times of the observation period. 

Off-Glacier air temperatures in the region can be accessed from the platform of the Regione Autonoma Valle d'Aosta:
 https://presidi2.regione.vda.it/str_dataview_station/3060. 

Additional details can be found in the article: 
Shaw, T. E., Brock, B. W., Ayala, A., Rutter, N., & Pellicciotti, F. (2017). 
Centreline and cross-glacier air temperature variability on an Alpine glacier: assessing temperature distribution methods and their influence on melt model calculations. 
Journal of Glaciology, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2017.65

Please cite the above article for any usage of the dataset.

Data are shared and compiled as part of a wider project to estimate on-glacier air temperatures from off-glacier data
For more details on the 'TEMPEST' project, visit: https://tempestglacier.com/