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Data from Tarfala Research Station, Kebnekaise mountains, northern Sweden

Tarfala Research Station staff

Collection of data from Tarfala Research Station (TRS) and locations associated with it in a wider geographic vicinity. The station is located at 1130 m a.s.l. in the Kebnekaise mountains, northern Sweden. The valley is a sub-arctic high alpine valley.

The datasets concern both different locations and different objects/topics. They range from glacier surface mass balance and digital elevation models (DEM) datasets for glaciers, to meteorological datasets from automated weather stations, to datasets for lakes (bathymetry, water temperature series and time-lapse imagery of ice-phenology) and to elevation data from Sweden's formerly highest peak, Kebnekaise southern peak, for which elevation is shrinking because of the thinning of the glacier located on its top.

The datasets vary with regard to their temporal coverage — some extend several decennia back in time and are continuously updated since, while others have more recent starting dates and may be continuously updated or may have terminated at some point in time. Datasets will be updated and/or added progressively.

Terrestrial Glaciers Tarfala Kebnekaise Weather Climate Arctic Alpine Temperature Humidity Solar radiation Wind Precipitation Air pressure Glacier mass balance Hydrology

Mass balance for Storglaciären

Datasets

Glaciology
Storglaciären
Rabots glaciär
Rivgojiehkki (Riukojietna)
Moarhmmáglaciären (Mårmaglaciären)
Sydtoppen
Sálajiegna (Salajekna)
Meteorology
Tarfala Research Station
Lihtti
Limnology
Darfáljávri (Lake Tarfala)

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Citation

Tarfala Research Station staff (2025) Data from Tarfala Research Station, Kebnekaise mountains, northern Sweden. Dataset version 2. Bolin Centre Database. https://doi.org/10.17043/tarfala-2

Comments

Tarfala Research Station

Tarfala Research Station (TRS) is Stockholm University’s centre for glaciological and alpine research. At TRS, both disciplinary and interdisciplinary research is conducted, studying the effects of climate change on the local cryosphere and peri-glacial environments, and relating it to pan-arctic and global change and its implications for the future. Long term observations of watercourses and ecosystems are also carried out alongside long term observations of the changing state of glaciers.

Publications

The TRS website includes a list of publications related to research at the station.

Other data repositories

Over the years, data from TRS have been made accessible at different repositories. Links to where older TRS data was made available initially are provided in the data descriptions of individual datasets in this collection where applicable.

Version history

Version 2

Data re-organized into a collection of individually published datasets. Published 2025. Individual datasets updated to 2024 when possible.

Version 1

Initial release at a dedicated web site. Published 2012. Not updated after 2015.

Contact information

Email address
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Postal address

Tarfala Research Station
c/o Baltic Sea Centre
Stockholm University
SE-106 91 Stockholm
Sweden

Metadata

GCMD science keywords

Earth science > Cryosphere > Glaciers/ice sheets

GCMD location

Continent > Europe > Northern Europe > Scandinavia > Sweden

Dataset language

English

Publisher

Bolin Centre Database

Dataset version

2

License

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0)

DOI

10.17043/tarfala-2

Published

2025-06-03 09:54:59

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