(Table 2) Ice, snow and freeboard statistics from measurement transects at 11 ice stations during Aurora Australis cruise SIPEX in 2007, supplement to: Worby, Anthony P; Steer, Adam; Lieser, Jan L; Heil, Petra; Yi, Donghui; Markus, Thorsten; Allison, Ian; Massom, Robert A; Galin, Natalia; Zwally, H Jay (2011): Regional-scale sea-ice and snow thickness distributions from in situ and satellite measurements over East Antarctica during SIPEX 2007. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 58(9-10), 1125-1136

• Main Authors: Worby, Anthony P, Steer, Adam, Lieser, Jan L, Heil, Petra, Yi, Donghui, Markus, Thorsten, Allison, Ian, Massom, Robert A, Galin, Natalia, Zwally, H Jay
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA - Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science 2011
• Subjects: Event label; Date/Time of event; Latitude of event; Longitude of event; Duration; Length; Number of observations; Sea ice thickness; Standard deviation; Freeboard; Snow thickness; Snow thickness, standard deviation; Ice station; SIPEX; Aurora Australis; International Polar Year 2007-2008 IPY; Antarctic; East Antarctica; Antarc*; Antarctica; aurora australis; International Polar Year; IPY; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.841956; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.841956

The Sea Ice Physics and Ecosystem experiment (SIPEX) was conducted in the East Antarctic pack ice zone between 115-130°E from 9 September - 11 October, 2007. In situ measurements of sea-ice and snow properties were conducted at 15 ice stations, together with ship-based ASPeCt observations. The ice and snow thickness varied considerably in different regions of the pack ice, with particularly thick ice associated with deformation and a strong slope jet in the southwest of the study region. The mean ice thickness was 0.99 m (1.57 m excluding the northern marginal ice zones), but varied from 0.61 m along the southern leg to 1.80 m along the western leg, with pockets of considerably thicker ice in some regions. Swell was observed on two occasions penetrating more than 330 km south of the ice edge into regions with 80-100% ice concentration. Ice thicknesses calculated from near coincident ICESat laser altimetry (1.74 m) are similar to the in-situ observations in the central pack (1.57 m). : Data extracted in the frame of a joint ICSTI/PANGAEA IPY effort, see http://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.150150