High resolved snow height measurements at Neumayer Station, Antarctica, 2010@en

At Neumayer-Station in Antarctica snow height is permanently monitored with a laser distance meter. From 2010-01-27 until 2011-10-11 the instrument was installed for test purposes on the meteorological mast some 300m south-east of the main station building. By design, the sample area of the surface is on the order of a few millimetre in diameter. Long-term trends of the measured snow height are strongly correlated with accumulation on the ice shelf at a horizontal scale of several kilometres. Short-term trends reflect dynamic changes of the surface and can be used to deduce information on surface roughness.南极诺伊迈尔站（Neumayer-Station）采用激光测距仪（laser distance meter）对积雪高度开展长期连续监测。2010年1月27日至2011年10月11日期间，该仪器为测试目的被安装于主楼东南方向约300米处的气象桅杆上。按设计要求，该仪器的地表采样区域直径约为数毫米。测得的积雪高度长期变化趋势与数公里水平尺度下冰架的积雪积累量呈显著相关；短期变化趋势则反映地表的动态变化过程，可用于推导地表粗糙度相关信息。