SUMup snow depth, density and accumulation data collection effort

The Surface Mass Balance and Snow on Sea Ice Working Group (SUMup) is leading NASA's effort to improve spatial and temporal estimates of surface mass balance on ice sheets and snow accumulation on sea ice.  At the 2012 SUMup meeting it was determined that easy, consolidated access to observational data would help improve modeling and remote sensing efforts. SUMup is currently compiling three observational datasets to be updated yearly and distributed to the community. SUMup has already compiled many datasets internally and are asking for additional contributions to the three datasets which are:

•  Annual Accumulation over the ice sheets and ice caps from 1800 on including ice cores, stake  and radar measurements.
•  Snow Density over sea ice, ice sheets and ice caps.
•  Snow Depth over sea ice including measurement and radar derived snow depths.

If you would like to contribute data to any of these datasets, or have addition questions please visit the SUMup webpage at http://neptune.gsfc.nasa.gov/csb/index.php?section=267 or email Lora Koenig at lora.s.koenig@nasa.gov by March 31, 2013. All data contributors will be cited in the dataset.