Monitoring of the glaciers surrounding Malmbjerg

Updated 2012-08-28

to monitor the mass balance and glacier flow of Arcturus Glacier and of Schuchert Glacier adjacent to Malmbjerg (Stauning Alps, E Greenland) Network type: commercial consultancy including in-situ monitoring, ablation stakes, ground penetrating radar, modelling

Status: Ongoing
Project time span: 2008 -
Data collection: 2008 -
Data processing: 2008 -
Data reporting: 2008 -

Contact information

Contact person: - -
Address: Michele Citterio
Email: kd.sueg@ticm

Parameters and Media

Parameter groups measured/observed/modelled

Media sampled/studied/modelled

Ice/snowpack

Geography

Regions studied: Greenland

Data availability

Samples/specimens archived in specimen banks?: No

Methods & Procedures

Procedures and methodology used for, e.g., sampling and sample storage, sample pretreatment, extraction and analysis, including which laboratories are involved, references to methods employed, etc.: ice ablation, air temperature, relative humidity, barometric pressure, wind speed, wind direction, incoming shortwave radiation, reflected shortwave radiation, incoming longwave radiation, emitted longwave radiation, snow depth, ice temperature profile, GPS position.

Additional Information

Is this a bi- AND multi-lateral project (i.e. a project involving cooperation between different countries)?: No
Is this project reporting to other organizations/programmes?