Sedimentation rate from Hornsund fjord, Svalbard, 2015-2023

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Sediment flux measurements have been conducted in Hornsund fjord in southern Svalbard since 2016. The observations span over several months, typically from May to October, each year. The main focus of the sedimentological observations has been on Hansbukta, one of the several smaller fjord arms in Hornsund fjord. Intermittent observations from other locations across the fjord are also available. Sediment flux measurements are obtained from a single point in the center of Hansbukta. In individual years, the distribution of sedimentation has also been surveyed with sampling across sections parallel and perpendicular to the glacier front. The sediment flux is generally measured either 5 meters above the bottom or below/above the thermocline. The amount of organic matter, expressed as loss on ignition (LOI %), is obtained after combustion. Further details on the data collection and processing can be found in the manuscript mentioned below. The monitoring is still ongoing and the datasets will be updated annually at the data portal of Institute of Geophysics Polish Academy of Sciences (https://dataportal.igf.edu.pl/group/longhorn).

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DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.967172
Related Identifier IsSupplementTo https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-16-4511-2024
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.967172
Provenance
Creator Moskalik, Mateusz; Korhonen, Meri ORCID logo; Głowacki, Oskar; Jain, Vineet
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2024
Funding Reference EEA and Norway Grants https://doi.org/10.13039/501100007048 Crossref Funder ID UMO-2019/34/H/ST10/00504 https://raw-grieg.igf.edu.pl/ RAW - Retreat and Wither; National Science Centre Poland https://doi.org/10.13039/501100004281 Crossref Funder ID UMO-2020/39/B/ST10/01504 Re-Load; Polish Academy of Sciences https://doi.org/10.13039/501100004382 Crossref Funder ID 15/E-41/SPUB/SP/2019 LONGHORN; Polish Academy of Sciences https://doi.org/10.13039/501100004382 Crossref Funder ID 3/524698/SPUB/SP/2022 LONGHORN; Polish Academy of Sciences https://doi.org/10.13039/501100004382 Crossref Funder ID 3841/E-41/SPUB/2015 LONGHORN; Polish Academy of Sciences https://doi.org/10.13039/501100004382 Crossref Funder ID 3841/E-41/SPUB/2016/1 LONGHORN
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Resource Type Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 893 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (15.614W, 76.943S, 16.950E, 77.104N); Hornsund fjord, Spitsbergen
Temporal Coverage Begin 2016-07-14T00:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2023-09-21T00:00:00Z