The Guadalfeo Monitoring Network (Sierra Nevada, Spain): 14 years of measurements to understand the complexity of snow dynamics in semiarid regions

Polo, María J.; Herrero, Javier; Pimentel, Rafael; Pérez-Palazón, María J.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-11-393-2019

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The Guadalfeo Monitoring Network (Sierra Nevada, Spain): 14 years of measurements to understand the complexity of snow dynamics in semiarid regions

María J. Polo, Javier Herrero, Rafael Pimentel, and María J. Pérez-Palazón

Data sets

Snow Cover Fraction (SCF) and snow depth obtained using terrestrial photography (2009-2013) in the control area Refugio Poqueira (Sierra Nevada, Spain) R. Pimentel, J. Herrero, and M. J. Polo https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.871706

Meteorology data of Guadalfeo Monitoring Network (Sierra Nevada, Spain) M. J. Polo, J. Herrero, R. Pimentel, and M. J. Pérez-Palazón https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.895236

Snow cover maps (C1) of Guadalfeo Monitoring Network (Sierra Nevada, Spain) M. J. Polo, J. Herrero, R. Pimentel, and M. J. Pérez-Palazón https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.898374

Short summary

This work presents the Guadalfeo Monitoring Network in the Sierra Nevada (Spain), a snow monitoring network in the Guadalfeo Experimental Catchment, a semiarid area in southern Europe representative of snowpacks with highly variable dynamics on both annual and seasonal scales and significant topographic gradients. The network includes weather stations and time-lapse cameras to capture the variability of the ablation phases on different spatial scales.