Observations of ice thickness, snow heights and water depths in Friesland
In-situ observations were collected by the Rayonhoofden of the ‘Vereniging De Friesche Elfsteden’. The ice thickness measurements were made in the city of Veenwouden (53.2351 °N, 5.9867 °E) in Friesland during 1986 and 1987, and span a few weeks with one measurement each day. These observations were published in an article of De Bruin and Wessels (1988). In this KDP dataset also observations of Rayonhoofden during the winters of 2010, 2011 and 2012 are available. They consist of a few weeks of ice observations spread out over the province of Friesland. Apart from ice thicknesses, also snow heights and water depths were added here. These data were ingested in a dedicated website of KNMI, operated by Rudolf van Westrhenen and Martin Stam. It should be noted that the observations are not validated.
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- Date (Publication)
- 2025-12-20
- Edition
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1.0
- Citation identifier
- urn:xkdc:ds:nl.knmi::ice_thickness_observations/1.0/
- Purpose
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Validation of ice grow models
- Status
- Completed
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Koninklijk Nederlands Meteorologisch Instituut (KNMI)
Point of contact
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Not planned
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DG Discovery Properties Vocabulary 1.0
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Climate
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Eleven cities tour
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Climate scenarios
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Lake ice models
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Ice thickness
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Snow cover
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- Use limitation
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no use limitations
- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- Classification
- Unclassified
- Spatial representation type
- Text, table
- Language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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- Begin date
- 1985-01-01
- End date
- 2012-03-01
- Supplemental Information
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Master Thesis David Verbruggen August 2025: Using Lake Models to Predict the Probability of the ”Elfsteden” Ice Skating Tour Under Future Climate Scenarios, see https://studenttheses.uu.nl/handle/20.500.12932/50175. The article of De Bruin and Wessels containing the 1988 data can be found here: https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/apme/27/2/1520-0450_1988_027_0164_amftfa_2_0_co_2.pdf .
- Reference system identifier
- http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/4326
- Distribution format
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Name Version CSV
1.0
- Distributor contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Koninklijk Nederlands Meteorologisch Instituut (KNMI)
Point of contact
Digital transfer options
- Transfer size
- 0.5
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name landingpage
https://dataplatform.knmi.nl/catalog/datasets/index.html?x-dataset=ice_thickness_observations&x-dataset-version=1.0 KNMI Data Platform
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Statement
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The measurements have been performed by the 'rayonhoofden' of the Koninklijke Vereniging De Friesche Elf Steden.
Metadata
- File identifier
- 24d85eca-9f8e-11f0-8031-f2d04b14f78f XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2026-02-23T13:25:31.63239Z
- Metadata standard name
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ISO 19115
- Metadata standard version
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ISO 19115:2003 NL Kernset 1.3 KNMI 2.1.0
- Metadata author
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Koninklijk Nederlands Meteorologisch Instituut (KNMI)
Point of contact
- Other language
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Language Character encoding Dutch; Flemish English UTF8
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