Programme for Monitoring of the Greenland Ice Sheet (PROMICE) automatic weather station data

The Programme for Monitoring of the Greenland Ice Sheet (PROMICE) has been measuring climate and ice sheet properties since 2007. Currently, the PROMICE automatic weather station network includes 25 instrumented sites in Greenland. Accurate measurements of the surface and near-surface atmospheric conditions in a changing climate are important for reliable present and future assessment of changes in the Greenland Ice Sheet. Here, we present the PROMICE vision, methodology, and each link in the production chain for obtaining and sharing quality-checked data. In this paper, we mainly focus on the critical components for calculating the surface energy balance and surface mass balance. A user-contributable dynamic web-based database of known data quality issues is associated with the data products at https://github.com/GEUS- Glaciology- and-Climate/PROMICE-AWS-data- issues/ (last access: 7 April 2021). As part of the living data option, the datasets presented and described here are available at https://doi.org/10.22008/promice/data/aws (Fausto et al., 2019).

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The PROMICE programme has been monitoring climate and ice sheet properties in Greenland since 2007, with 25 instrumented sites in their automatic weather station network. Accurate measurements of surface and near-surface atmospheric conditions are crucial for assessing changes in the Greenland Ice Sheet.