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Detailed water quality parameters at Adventdalen, Svalbard (2015-2016)
GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01138

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Abstract:
Adventdalen is a medium-sized (513 km2) catchment in continuous permafrost zone of central Spitsbergen. It has 11.7 % glacier cover, a large flat valley floor comprised of uplifted, glaciomarine sediments, covered in the lower part by a veneer of aeolian sediments up to 4 m thick. The geology of the catchment is dominated by sandstones, shales and carbonates. Freshwater samples were collected typically every second day throughout the principal runoff season (late May until early September) during 2015 and 2016 from a downstream site located at the head of the delta. Analysis of major ions (by ion chromatography) and minor constituents (trace metals by icpms and silica by colorimetric analysis).

Funding was provided by the NERC grant NE/M019829/1.

Keywords:
Arctic, Major ions, Runoff, Silica, Svalbard, Trace metals

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Nowak, A., & Hodson, A. (2019). Detailed water quality parameters at Adventdalen, Svalbard (2015-2016) (Version 1.0) [Data set]. UK Polar Data Centre, Natural Environment Research Council, UK Research & Innovation. https://doi.org/10.5285/ba29d42b-ebee-4da8-9861-f46277e14b5d

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