Spatial variations in air temperature and humidity over Hornsund fjord (Spitsbergen) from 1 July 2014 to 30 June 2015

Araźny, Andrzej; Przybylak, Rajmund; Wyszyński, Przemysław; Wawrzyniak, Tomasz; Nawrot, A.; Budzik, Tomasz

doi:10.1080/04353676.2017.1368832

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“…Due to the flat, lowland nature of the area and its the Hornsund Fiord showed that the air temperature drops quite quickly with increasing distance from the open Greenland Sea. Data from the 2014/2015 season show that the warmest zone of the Hornsund is its north-western part (near Hyttevika), where the average annual temperature can be over 2 °C higher than on the coasts in the inner part of the fiord (Treskelodden) (Araźny et al 2017). In particular days, the relative humidity also can vary considerably in this region, and their mean annual values may differ by even 15 percentage points between measurement sites (Araźny et al 2017).…”

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“…Data from the 2014/2015 season show that the warmest zone of the Hornsund is its north-western part (near Hyttevika), where the average annual temperature can be over 2 °C higher than on the coasts in the inner part of the fiord (Treskelodden) (Araźny et al 2017). In particular days, the relative humidity also can vary considerably in this region, and their mean annual values may differ by even 15 percentage points between measurement sites (Araźny et al 2017). The assessment of precipitation spatial variability is very difficult.…”

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2021

Publs. Inst. Geophys. P.A.S.

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“…The coastline of Hornsund is diversified, with multiple bays and glaciated valleys. A recent expansion of the ice-free areas is observed in Svalbard, with the most significant retreats of the tidewater glaciers (Błaszczyk et al, 2013), so the recognition of the changes in the functioning of the environmental system becomes more and more essential. The station is set on a marine terrace at 10 m a.s.l.…”

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A 40-year High Arctic climatological dataset of the Polish Polar Station Hornsund (SW Spitsbergen, Svalbard)

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Osuch

2020

Earth Syst. Sci. Data

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Abstract. The article presents the climatological dataset from the Polish Polar Station Hornsund located in the southwest part of Spitsbergen – the biggest island of the Svalbard archipelago. Due to a general lack of long-term in situ measurements and observations, the High Arctic remains one of the largest climate-data-deficient regions on the Earth. Therefore, the described time series of observations in this paper are of unique value. To draw conclusions on the climatic changes in the Arctic, it is necessary to analyse and compare the long-term series of continuous, in situ observations from different locations, rather than relying on the climatic simulations only. In recent decades, rapid environmental changes occurring in the Atlantic sector of the Arctic are reflected in the data series collected by the operational monitoring conducted at the Hornsund station. We demonstrate the results of the 40-year-long series of observations. Climatological mean values or totals are given, and we also examined the variability of meteorological variables at monthly and annual scale using the modified Mann–Kendall test for trend and Sen's method. The relevant daily, monthly, and annual data are provided on the PANGAEA repository (https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.909042, Wawrzyniak and Osuch, 2019).

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“…The main characteristics of the regional climate are: (a) relatively mild air temperatures for the latitude (77°–80°N) due to the proximity of the warm West Spitsbergen Current (Førland et al , ; Walczowski and Piechura, ); (b) frequent coreless winters, mid‐winter warm‐spells, thawing events and large day‐to‐day winter temperature variability (Bednorz and Fortuniak, ); (c) high relative humidity, cloudiness and wind speeds (Esau and Repina, ; Maturilli et al , ; Łupikasza and Lipiński, ); (d) relatively low precipitation (200–600 mm) (Førland et al , ); (e) strong seasonal contrasts in global radiation (polar night and midnight‐sun) (Maturilli et al , ); and (f) high weather sensitivity to changes in atmospheric circulation and sea ice conditions (Isaksen et al , ). Additionally, the local climate is significantly influenced by distance to the surrounding seas, relief and surface characteristics (e.g., Bednorz and Kolendowicz, ; Przybylak et al , ; Gjelten et al , ; Araźny et al , ).…”

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Meteorology and summer net radiation of an Arctic alpine glacier: Svenbreen, Svalbard

Małecki

2019

Intl Journal of Climatology

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Arctic glaciers have been, and are predicted to remain, an important sea-level rise contributor over the 20th and 21st centuries. However, multi-annual observations of their basic meteorological characteristics, which drive melt processes, are very sparse, contributing to uncertainties in sea-level rise projections. This paper presents a methodology to process and analyse 6 years (September 2011-September 2017) of glacier meteorology data collected by an automatic weather station on the ablation zone of a small valley glacier in Svalbard (~79 N). The study focuses on the microclimate of the study glacier and its differences with that of large glaciers in the region, namely slightly increased summer air temperature with steep nearsurface lapse rates, frequently superadiabatic, reduced wind speed and incoming shortwave radiation flux. These differences are likely related to the adjacent complex relief and non-ice-covered surfaces within the basin of the study glacier and, as such, pose a challenge for accurate simulation of alpine glacier microclimates in regional melt assessments in the Arctic. The processing routine applied in this paper might serve as a reference for future similar studies. K E Y W O R D Sair temperature, automatic weather station, climate, glacier albedo, lapse rate, melt season, mountain environment

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Spatial variations in air temperature and humidity over Hornsund fjord (Spitsbergen) from 1 July 2014 to 30 June 2015

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A 40-year High Arctic climatological dataset of the Polish Polar Station Hornsund (SW Spitsbergen, Svalbard)

Meteorology and summer net radiation of an Arctic alpine glacier: Svenbreen, Svalbard

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