Barrow Airborne Sea Ice Thickness Surveys

• Main Authors: Hajo Eicken, Stefan Hendricks, Mette Kaufman, Andy Mahoney
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Arctic Data Center 2009
• Subjects: EARTH SCIENCE > CRYOSPHERE > SEA ICE > ICE DEPTH/THICKNESS; AIRCRAFT; TRANSECT; 1 METER TO 30 METERS; ANNUAL; oceans; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Alfred Wegener Institute; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.18739/A2W656

As an international partner, the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research provides measurements of sea ice thickness obtained by a helicopter based electromagnetic (EM) ice thickness sensor. A description of the system is given in Haas et al. (2007). In principle the distance between t...