The Greenland Firn Compaction Verification and Reconnaissance (FirnCover) dataset, 2013–2019

MacFerrin, Michael J.; Stevens, C. Max; Vandecrux, Baptiste; Waddington, Edwin D.; Abdalati, Waleed

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-955-2022

Articles | Volume 14, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-955-2022

© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-955-2022

© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 14, issue 2

Data description paper

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01 Mar 2022

Data description paper |

| 01 Mar 2022

The Greenland Firn Compaction Verification and Reconnaissance (FirnCover) dataset, 2013–2019

Michael J. MacFerrin, C. Max Stevens, Baptiste Vandecrux, Edwin D. Waddington, and Waleed Abdalati

Data sets

The Greenland Firn Compaction Verification and Reconnaissance (FirnCover) Dataset, 2013-2019 M. MacFerrin, C. M. Stevens, and B. Vandecrux https://doi.org/10.18739/A25X25D7M

Surface Mass Balance and Snow Depth on Sea Ice Working Group (SUMup) snow density subdataset, Greenland and Antartica, 1950-2018 L. Koenig and L. Montgomery https://doi.org/10.18739/A26D5PB2S

Model code and software

FirnCover visualization scripts (1.1) B. Vandecrux, M. J. MacFerrin, and C. M. Stevens https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5854253

Short summary

The vast majority of the Greenland ice sheet's surface is covered by pluriannual snow, also called firn, that accumulates year after year and is compressed into glacial ice. The thickness of the firn layer changes through time and responds to the surface climate. We present continuous measurement of the firn compaction at various depths for eight sites. The dataset will help to evaluate firn models, interpret ice cores, and convert remotely sensed ice sheet surface height change to mass loss.