Snow density, temperature, and hardness at Concordia Station, Antarctica

This dataset reports the snow density, temperature and hardness observations from the surface to 1 m depth at the Concordia Station, Antarctica. A snow trench is dig once per month (or every three months during winter) in the clean area near the Station (< 1 km). The snow density measurements are taken inserting a core barrel (with a diameter of 4.5 cm and a length of 25 cm) horizontally into the snow every 10 cm from 0 to 1 m depth. The snow density is calculated from the weight. For each layer the temperature and the hardness (ranging from 1 to 6) are also recorded.

Date (Creation): 2025-01-13

Date (Publication): 2025-04-15

Citation identifier: https://antarcticdatacenter.cnr.it/geonetwork/srv/api/records/5fdbb2ae-6c40-4bd0-a502-7fb9844bd227

Code: 10.71761/5fdbb2ae-6c40-4bd0-a502-7fb9844bd227

Status: On going

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Ca' Foscari University of Venice - Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics	Ca' Foscari University of Venice - Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics	claudio.stefanini@unive.it	Principal investigator
Ca' Foscari University of Venice - Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics	AIR-FLOC	barbara.stenni@unive.it	Point of contact

Maintenance and update frequency: As needed

Keywords

Antarctica, Concordia, snow, density, temperature, hardness

GCMD - Science Keywords

SNOW
SNOW/ICE TEMPERATURE
SNOW DENSITY
GLACIERS/ICE SHEETS
GLACIER MASS BALANCE/ICE SHEET MASS BALANCE

GCMD - Locations

ANTARCTICA

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Meteorological geographical features
Geology

Research Organization

Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia

SCAR Gazetteer of Antarctica

Antarctica
Concordia Station

GCMD - Providers

IT/PNRA

Use limitation: Creative-Commons CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Spatial representation type: Text, table

Denominator: 1

Language: English

Begin date: 2023-01-09T00:00:00Z

End date: 2024-12-28T00:00:00Z

Unique resource identifier: WGS84

Distribution format

Name	Version
ERDDAP

Distributor

Distributor contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
National Antarctic Data Center	National Antarctic Data Center
ISP-CNR	ISP-CNR		Distributor

Digital transfer options

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link	https://antarcticdatacenter.cnr.it/geonetwork/srv/api/records/5fdbb2ae-6c40-4bd0-a502-7fb9844bd227	Landing page
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--opendap	https://antarcticdatacenter.cnr.it/erddap/tabledap/snow_density_temperature_and_hardness_at_concordia_station_antarctica_qtndar	OPeNDAP URL
WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download	https://antarcticdatacenter.cnr.it/erddap/tabledap/snow_density_temperature_and_hardness_at_concordia_station_antarctica_qtndar.csv	Direct download
WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download	https://antarcticdatacenter.cnr.it/erddap/tabledap/snow_density_temperature_and_hardness_at_concordia_station_antarctica_qtndar.nc	Direct download

Digital transfer options

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
DOI	https://doi.org/10.71761/5fdbb2ae-6c40-4bd0-a502-7fb9844bd227	Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Domain consistency

Conformance result

Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

Date (Publication): 2010-12-08

Explanation: This data set is conformant with the INSPIRE Implementing Rules for the interoperability of spatial data sets and services

Pass: Yes

Statement: 2025-01-13T10:00:00Z First upload of the dataset

Metadata

File identifier: 5fdbb2ae-6c40-4bd0-a502-7fb9844bd227 XML

Metadata language: English

Character set: UTF8

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Date stamp: 2025-05-12T14:21:01

Metadata standard name: ISO 19139

Metadata standard version: 1.0

Metadata author

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Ca' Foscari University of Venice - Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics	Ca' Foscari University of Venice - Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics	claudio.stefanini@unive.it	Point of contact