Programme for Monitoring of the Greenland Ice Sheet (PROMICE) automatic weather station data

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Robert S. Fausto1, Dirk van As1, Kenneth D. Mankoff1, Baptiste Vandecrux1, Michele Citterio1, Andreas P. Ahlstrøm1, S. B. Andersen1, William Colgan1, Nanna B. Karlsson1, Kristian K. Kjeldsen1, Niels J. Korsgaard1, Signe Hillerup Larsen1, Søren Beck Nielsen1, Allan Pedersen1, Christopher L. Shields1, Anne Solgaard1, Jason E. Box1
1The Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Øster voldgade 10, 1350 Copenhagen K, Denmark

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Abstract. The Programme for Monitoring of the Greenland Ice Sheet (PROMICE) has been measuring climate and ice sheet properties since 2007. Currently, the PROMICE automatic weather station network includes 25 instrumented sites in Greenland. Accurate measurements of the surface and near-surface atmospheric conditions in a changing climate are important for reliable present and future assessment of changes in the Greenland Ice Sheet. Here, we present the PROMICE vision, methodology, and each link in the production chain for obtaining and sharing quality-checked data. In this paper, we mainly focus on the critical components for calculating the surface energy balance and surface mass balance. A user-contributable dynamic web-based database of known data quality issues is associated with the data products at https://github.com/GEUS-Glaciology-and-Climate/PROMICE-AWS-data-issues/ (last access: 7 April 2021). As part of the living data option, the datasets presented and described here are available at https://doi.org/10.22008/promice/data/aws (Fausto et al., 2019).

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