Front positions of tidewater glaciers in Hornsund (S Svalbard)

Ice front position of the tidewater glaciers in Hornsund was examined during the following periods: 1899–1936–1960/1961–1976–1990–2001–2005–2010. For the period 1899–1990, several archival maps of varying accuracy were used, sometimes difficult to assess. For the period 1976–2010 multispectral and radar satellite images were used. Detailed description of the source data and accuracy can be found in: Błaszczyk M., Jania J.A., Kolondra L., 2013: Fluctuations of tidewater glaciers in Hornsund Fiord (Southern Svalbard) since the beginning of the 20th century. Polish Polar Research, 34(4): 327-352.

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Citation

Date (Publication)
2018-11-26
Edition
https://ppdb.us.edu.pl/demodem/editioin
Purpose
scientific and didactic
Status
On going
Owner
  University of Silesia in Katowice - Małgorzata Błaszczyk ( )
Maintenance and update frequency
As needed
Theme
  • front positions, Hornsund
Place
  • Spitsbergen, Svalbard, Norway
Projects
  • SESS_2019

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Other constraints
CC BY 4.0
Spatial representation type
Vector
Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
Topic category
  • Environment
Begin date
1899-07-01
End date
2010-08-17
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Supplemental Information

Detailed description of the data quality and accuracy can be found in: Błaszczyk M., Jania J.A., Kolondra L., 2013: Fluctuations of tidewater glaciers in Hornsund Fiord (Southern Svalbard) since the beginning of the 20th century. Polish Polar Research, 34(4): 327-352.

Coverage area:

Hornsund (15.50 77.11, 16.88 77.11, 16.88 76.88, 15.50 76.88)

Data resolution:

Spatial resolution – 30-200m

Front position detected in 1899–1936–1960/1961–1976–1990–2001–2005–2010

Data quality:

Different sources of data were used to examine fluctuations of the tidewater glaciers during the twentieth and twenty−first centuries. All the topographical maps were digitally scanned, geocoded using ground control points and reprojected (when needed) into UTM33X system on theWGS 84 datum. All satellite images were co-registered with use of the same ground control points close to sea level.
 

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Fronts.zip ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

Front positions of tidewater glaciers in Hornsund (S Svalbard)

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Front_positions_1899.nc ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

Front position 1899

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Front position 1936 ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

Front position 1936

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Front position 1960 - 1961 ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

Front position 1960 - 1961

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Front position 1976 ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

Front position 1976

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Front_positions_1990.nc ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

Front position 1990

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Front_positions_2001.nc ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

Front position 2001

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Front_positions_2005.nc ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

Front position 2005

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Front_positions_2010.nc ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

Front position 2010

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Extended human readable information about the dataset ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )

Extended human readable information about the dataset

 

Quality

Data quality

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Dataset
 

Ref. system

Reference system identifier
UTM 33X
 

Metadata

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File identifier
05e2c69a-5645-4488-bc88-630beb03a462 XML
Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
Date stamp
2021-02-22T10:52:54
Metadata standard name
dignatiuk@gmail.com
Metadata standard version
1.0
Point of contact
  University of Silesia - Małgorzata Błaszczyk ( )
 
 

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Keywords

front positions, Hornsund
Projects
SESS_2019

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