CANADA GLACIER TERMINUS MEASUREMENTS


1995/96 File Descriptions

Filename: term956.dat
Station: Lake Hoare terminus met station
Date of Establishment: Dec 10, 1995 by Karen Lewis
Author of this report: Karen Lewis
File Period: Dec 10/95 (344) @ 17:45 to Jan 22/95 (22) @ 16:30
Sampling Frequency: every 10 seconds
Averaging and Output Interval: every 15 minutes
Program name: terminus
 
1. array I.D.
2. day
     ok
3. time
     ok
4. distance (Sonic Ranger output) (mm)
     ok
5. mean solar flux going out (W/m2)
     ok
6. mean solar flux going in (W/m2)
     ok
*7. mean air temp. (C)
     convert to mV, then clow
8. mean rh (%)
     ok
9. sample battery voltage
 
*Notes:
 
1. The first line of this file is text describing what is in each field.
2. Air temperature has not been corrected for calibration
     against the LTER standard.

1996/97 File Descriptions

Filename: term9671.dat
Station: Lake Hoare terminus met station
Date of Establishment: Jan 9, 1997 by Karen Lewis
Author of this report: Karen Lewis
File Period: Jan 9/97 (9) @ 18:00 to Jan 26/97 (26) @ 17:30
Sampling Frequency: every 30 seconds
Averaging and Output Interval: every 15 minutes
Program name: term9671.dld
 
1. array I.D.
2. day
     ok
3. time
     ok
*4. mean air temp. (C)
     convert to mV, then clow
5. mean rh (%)
     ok
6. mean shortwave solar flux going in (W/m2)
     ok
7. mean shortwave solar flux going out (W/m2)
     ok
8. mean photosynthetically active radiation (micromol/sm^2)
     ok
9. mean wind speed (m/s)
     ok
10. mean wind direction (degrees)
     ok
11. ice surface temperature (C)
     ok
12. mean net radiation (W/m^2)
     ok
13. distance from sensor to cliff (m)
     bad to Jan 12 1330
14. sample battery voltage
 
*Notes:
1. Air temperature has not been corrected for calibration against the LTER standard.

Filename: term9672.dat
Station: Lake Fryxell SSSI terminus met station
Date of Establishment: Jan 16, 1997 by Karen Lewis
Author of this report: Karen Lewis
File Period: Jan 16/97 (16) @ 13:00 to Jan 27/97 (27) @ 13:45
Sampling Frequency: every 30 seconds
Averaging and Output Interval: every 15 minutes
Program name: term9672.dld
 
1. array I.D.
2. day
     ok
3. time
     ok
*4. mean air temp. @ 1.78 m (C)
     convert to mV, then clow
5. mean rh @ 1.78 m(%)
     ok
6. mean shortwave solar flux going in (W/m2)
     ok
7. mean shortwave solar flux going out (W/m2
     ok
8. mean wind speed (m/s)
     ok
9. mean wind direction (degrees)
     ok
*10. mean air temp. @ 1.36 m (C)
     ok
11. mean rh @ 1.36 m (%)
     ok
12. mean barometric pressure (mbar)
     ok
13. mean net radiation (W/m^2)
     ok
14. ice surface temperature (C)
     ok
*15. distance from sensor to cliff (mm)
     note
16. sample battery voltage
 
*Notes:
1. Air temperature has not been corrected for calibration against the LTER standard.
2. The first 6 timesteps of the distance are bad.
3. For more information see field notebook 1996.01, pp. 45-48.

Filename: term9671.thm.dat
Station: Lake Hoare terminus met station thermocouples
Date of Establishment: Jan 13, 1997 by Andrew Fountain
Author of this report: Karen Lewis
File Period: Jan 13/97 (13) @ 16:00 to Jan 26/97 (26) @ 17:15
Sampling Frequency: every 10 seconds
Averaging and Output Interval: every 15 minutes
Program name: term9671.therm.dld
 
1. array I.D.
2. day
     ok
3. time
     ok
4. mean air temp. (C) at 94.0 cm (met station)
     ok
5. mean air temp. (C) at 54.5 cm
     ok
6. mean air temp. (C) at 28.2 cm
     ok
*7. mean air temp. (C) at 0.0 cm (east end of pipe)
     ok
8. sample battery voltage
     o1
 
*Notes:
1. Distance from the end of the pipe to the cliff face is 17.4 cm.