Sea ice conditions during POLARSTERN cruise PS86 (ARK-XXVIII/3 AURORA)

• Main Authors: Katlein, Christian, Arndt, Stefanie, Nicolaus, Marcel
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA - Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science 2014
• Subjects: DATE/TIME; LATITUDE; LONGITUDE; Investigator; Ice coverage; Open water type; Ice type; Sea ice thickness; Floe size; Snow type; Snow thickness; Sea ice topography; Ridge concentration; Ridge height, typical; Old Ridges; Consolidated Ridges; Snow covered ridges; Melt pond fraction; Melt pond depth; Melt pond pattern; Melt pond surface type; Melt pond freeboard; Melt pond bottom type; Algae fraction; Sediment fraction; Weather; Visibility; Cloud type; Cloud cover, high clouds; Cloud base height, highest; Cloud cover, medium clouds; Cloud base height, middle; Cloud cover, low clouds; Cloud base height, lowest; Cloudiness; Uniform resource locator/link to image; Underway cruise track measurements; Sea ice observation according to ASSIST protocol; Meteorological observation according to ASSIST protocol; PS86; Polarstern; Sea Ice Physics @ AWI AWI_SeaIce; Elliott; Andreas; Denise; Gunter; Marcon; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.835578; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.835578

Visual observations of sea-ice conditions were performed hourly from the bridge of Polarstern. The observations followed the ASSIST protocol (version 2.0).Observer team: Sebastian Albrecht, Stefanie Arndt, Denise Bachmann, John Bailey, Christian Borowski, Diederik D'Hert, Alexander Diehl, Stephen Elliott, Christopher German, Bernd Heesemann, Mike Jakuba, Mechthild Doll, Christopher Judge, Christian Katlein, Norbert Kaul, Henning Kirk, Janna Köhler, Mikko Lensu, Yann Marcon, Christopher McFarland, Massimiliano Molari, Johannes Pliet, Norbert Rieper, Vera Schlindwein, Florian Schmid, Stefano Suman, Andreas Türke, Martin Vogt, Louise Wagner, Michel Watelet, Gunter Wegener, Louis Whitcomb