The SUMup collaborative database: Surface mass balance, subsurface temperature and density measurements from the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets (2024 release)

  • Baptiste Vandecrux (Creator)
  • Charles Amory (Creator)
  • Andreas P. Ahlstrøm (Creator)
  • Pete D. Akers (Creator)
  • Mary Albert (Creator)
  • Richard B. Alley (Creator)
  • Marcela Alves De Castro (Creator)
  • Laurent Arnaud (Creator)
  • Ian Baker (Creator)
  • Roger Bales (Creator)
  • Carl Benson (Creator)
  • Jason E Box (Creator)
  • Ludovic Brucker (Creator)
  • Christo Buizert (Creator)
  • David Chandler (Creator)
  • Charalampos Charalampidis (Creator)
  • Clément Cherblanc (Creator)
  • Nicole Clerx (Creator)
  • William Colgan (Creator)
  • Federico Covi (Creator)
  • Marissa Dattler (Creator)
  • Gilles Denis (Creator)
  • Chris Derksen (Creator)
  • Jack E. Dibb (Creator)
  • Minghu Ding (Creator)
  • Daniel Dixon (Creator)
  • Olaf Eisen (Creator)
  • Dominik Fahrner (Creator)
  • Robert Fausto (Creator)
  • Vincent Favier (Creator)
  • Francisco Fernandoy (Creator)
  • Johannes Freitag (Creator)
  • Sebastian Gerland (Creator)
  • Joel Harper (Creator)
  • Robert L. Hawley (Creator)
  • Jasper Heuer (Creator)
  • Regine Hock (Creator)
  • Shugui Hou (Creator)
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  • Neil Humphrey (Creator)
  • Bryn Hubbard (Creator)
  • Yoshinori Iizuka (Creator)
  • Elisabeth Isaksson (Creator)
  • Takao Kameda (Creator)
  • Nanna B. Karlsson (Creator)
  • Kaoru Kawakami (Creator)
  • Helle Astrid Kjær (Creator)
  • Karl Kreutz (Creator)
  • Peter Kuipers Munneke (Creator)
  • Matthew Lazzara (Creator)
  • Emmanuel Lemeur (Creator)
  • Jan T. M. Lenaerts (Creator)
  • Gabriel Lewis (Creator)
  • Filipe Gaudie Ley Lindau (Creator)
  • Josephine Lindsey-Clark (Creator)
  • Michael MacFerrin (Creator)
  • Horst Machguth (Creator)
  • Olivier Magand (Creator)
  • Kenneth D. Mankoff (Creator)
  • Luciano Marquetto (Creator)
  • Patricia Martinerie (Creator)
  • Joseph R. McConnell (Creator)
  • Brooke Medley (Creator)
  • Clement Miege (Creator)
  • Katie E. Miles (Creator)
  • Olivia Miller (Creator)
  • Heinrich Miller (Creator)
  • Lynn Montgomery (Creator)
  • Elizabeth Morris (Creator)
  • Ellen Mosley-Thompson (Creator)
  • Robert Mulvaney (Creator)
  • Masashi Niwano (Creator)
  • Hans Oerter (Creator)
  • Erich Osterberg (Creator)
  • Inès Otosaka (Creator)
  • Ghislain Picard (Creator)
  • Chris Polashenski (Creator)
  • Carleen Reijmer (Creator)
  • Asa Rennermalm (Creator)
  • Anja Rutishauser (Creator)
  • Kirk Scanlan (Creator)
  • Jefferson C. Simões (Creator)
  • Sebastian B. Simonsen (Creator)
  • Paul C. J. P. Smeets (Creator)
  • Andrew Smith (Creator)
  • Anne Solgaard (Creator)
  • Matthew Spencer (Creator)
  • Hans Christian Steen-Larsen (Creator)
  • C. Max Stevens (Creator)
  • Shin Sugiyama (Creator)
  • Jonas Svensson (Creator)
  • Marco Tedesco (Creator)
  • Elizabeth Thomas (Creator)
  • Megan Thompson-Munson (Creator)
  • Shun Tsutaki (Creator)
  • Dirk van As (Creator)
  • Michiel R. van den Broeke (Creator)
  • Maurice Van Tiggelen (Creator)
  • Yetang Wang (Creator)
  • Frank Wilhelms (Creator)
  • Mai Winstrup (Technical University of Denmark) (Creator)
  • Jing Xiao (Creator)
  • Cunde Xiao (Creator)

Dataset

Description

The SUMup database is a compilation of surface mass balance (SMB), subsurface temperature and density measurements from the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets. This 2024 release contains 7 483 826 data points: 2 857 256 SMB measurements, 2 727 162 density measurements and 1 899 408 subsurface temperature measurements. This is respectively 1 078 716, 20 749 and 1 893 938 additional observations of SMB, density and temperature compared to the 2023 release. Since 2023, SUMup provides not only snow accumulation on ice sheets, like its predecessors, but all types of SMB measurements, including from ablation areas. The data files are provided in both CSV and NetCDF format and contain, for each measurement, the following metadata: latitude, longitude, elevation, timestamp, method, reference of the data source and, when applicable, the name of the measurement group it belongs to (core name for SMB, profile name for density, station name for temperature). Data users are encouraged to cite all the original data sources that are being used. Issues about this release as well as suggestions of datasets to be added in next releases can be done on a dedicated user forum: https://github.com/SUMup-database/SUMup-data-suggestion/issues. Example scripts to use the SUMup 2024 files are made available on our script repository: https://github.com/SUMup-database/SUMup-example-scripts.
Date made available2024
PublisherNSF Arctic Data Center

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