Automated ice mass balance site (SIZONET)

• Main Author: NSF Arctic Data Center
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Arctic Data Center 2009
• Subjects: EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SEA ICE > ICE GROWTH/MELT; AUTOMATED SURFACE OBSERVING SYSTEM; POINT; oceans; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Fairbanks; Chukchi Sea; Barrow; Chukchi; Sea ice; Alaska
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5065/D6MW2F2H

An automated site located near Barrow, Alaska in the Chukchi Sea landfast ice records ice thickness, snow depth, ice temperature, sea level (as measured on floating ice), and air temperature at regular (typically 30 min.) intervals during the ice growth and early melt season from (typically) January through June each year. Data are collected as part of the Seasonal Ice Zone Observing Network (SIZONet) and the Alaska Ocean Observing System (AOOS), by the sea-ice research group at the Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, P.O. Box 757320, Fairbanks, AK 99775-7320, USA (Project PI: Hajo Eicken, phone: [phone], e-mail: [e-mail], homepage: www.gi.alaska.edu/snowice/sea-lake-ice/eicken.html. Data Citation: Eicken, H., R. Gradinger, T. Heinrichs, M. Johnson, A. Lovecraft, and M. Kaufman. (Oct. 18, 2009, Updated May 9, 2012). Automated ice mass balance site (SIZONET). UCAR/NCAR -- CISL -- ACADIS. http://dx.doi.org/10.5065/D6MW2F2H