Snow temperature, stratigraphy, density, and stable water isotope profiles from the seasonal snowpack near Ny-Alesund, Svalbard, in March 2023

This dataset contains detailed records of snowpack characteristics near Ny-Alesund, Svalbard, between 21st and 31st March 2023. They were recorded in ten snow pits before in-situ tracer percolation experiments, and the records include location and overview photos of each pit, snow height, snow temperature, snow density, detailed snow stratigraphy observations, and stable water isotope signatures from the snow surface to the ground. The records were obtained by Dorothea Moser as part of an experimental field project ("Wet Fingerprints") to contextualise the results of the subsequently conducted tracer percolation experiments.

The project was supported by an Arctic Field Grant through the Norwegian Research Council (Project No. 342165, Research in Svalbard RiS ID 12132). Dorothea Elisabeth Moser was supported by BAS Cambridge and the NERC C-CLEAR Doctoral Training Programme (grant no. NE/S007164/1).