Snow buoy deployments made during the SIPEX II voyage of the Aurora Australis, 2012

• Other Authors: AADC (originator), AU/AADC > Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia (resourceProvider)
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Australian Ocean Data Network
• Subjects: climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere; oceans; SHORTWAVE RADIATION; EARTH SCIENCE; ATMOSPHERE; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR; SURFACE WINDS; ATMOSPHERIC WINDS; WIND PROFILES; SNOW; PRECIPITATION; SOLID PRECIPITATION; SNOW/ICE; CRYOSPHERE; SNOW COVER; SNOW DEPTH; SNOW/ICE TEMPERATURE; WATER TEMPERATURE; OCEAN TEMPERATURE; ICE TEMPERATURE; SEA ICE; SIPEX; Ice Mass Balance Buoy; IMB; AWS > Automated Weather System; R/V AA > R/V Aurora Australis; HELICOPTER; AMD; AMD/AU; CEOS; ACE/CRC; CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA; OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN; GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR; Southern Ocean; Antarc*; Antarctica; aurora australis; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://researchdata.ands.org.au/snow-buoy-deployments-australis-2012/685516; https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/SIPEX_II_Snow_Buoys; https://secure3.aad.gov.au/proms/public/projects/report_project_public.cfm?project_no=4073; http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/portal/download_file.cfm?file_id=4642; http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/metadata/citation.cfm?entry_id=SIPEX_II_Snow_Buoys

WHOI-1 was not deployed due to probably short circuit. WHOI-3 lost sensor chain during deformation event and was recovered. WHOI-5 failed and was recovered and replaced by WHOI-6 This document describes the deployment of five Ice Mass Balance Buoys (IMBs) and two automatic weather stations. These were primarily deployed on floes 2012103 and 20121029, as well as on helicopter flights (refer to buoy metadata for these). IMBs are labelled WHOI-1 to WHOI-6. WHOI-1 was not deployed and WHOI-3 and WHOI-5 failed and were recovered. TAS-2 was exchanged for WHOI-1 Deployments (successful): TAS-2 deployed on helo flight 20 km from ship WHOI-4 deployed on helo flight 20 km from ship WHOI-6 Deployed next to AWS-1 on ice station 1013 on 11/04 WHOI-2 Deployed next to AWS-2 on ice station 1029 on 11/01 Each AWS record air temp, relative humidity, wind speed and direction, total incident short wave, snow depth, GPS position and snow particles near ground level and at about 1m height. AWS-1 deployed on 1013 AWS-2 deployed on 1029 IMBs record GPS position and temperature in air,snow,ice, and ocean. Sensors also have a heating mode that permit determination of media they are embedded in so that snow and ice thickness can be determined. REFER TO MAKSYM LOGBOOK SCANS FOR MORE DETAILS