Automatic weather station data from the debris-covered Kennicott Glacier, Alaska (May-Aug 2019)

Data from an automatic weather station installed on the debris-covered Kennicott Glacier in the Wrangell St. Elias National Park, Alaska, USA, spanning most of the 2019 ablation season (28 May - 22 August 2019).

Brief description of the uploaded datasets:

KEN_2019_60.csv: Hourly aggregated measurements of air temperature, relative humidity, wind speed and direction, atmospheric pressure, incoming and reflected shortwave radiation, incoming and outgoing longwave radiation and precipitation

KEN_2019_AWS_Metadata.pdf: Metedata file describing the station location, sensor setup and measurements

KEN_2019_debris.csv: Debris properties assumed to be potentially applicable for this site (not measured but taken from literature)

KEN_2019_VAL_debristemperature.csv: Hourly time series of temperature measurements at known depths within the debris cover close to the station location

KEN_2019_VAL_subdebrismelt.csv: Monthly stake measurements of surface height change (sub-debris ice melt) close to the station location spanning the ablation season

We recorded additional meteorological data at the weather station (e.g. vertical profiles of wind speed/direction, relative humidity and temperature; 3D ultrasonic anemometer) as well as subdebris melt, dGPS-surface change and temperature profiles at additional transects for the same period. Please contact the authors in case of interest in any additional data.