Ice mass balance data PS81/517 from Weddell Sea, Antarctica, 2013 ...

• Main Authors: Wever, Nander, Maksym, Ted, White, Seth, Leonard, Katherine C
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2021
• Subjects: Autonomous buoy; Ice mass balance; Sea ice; Temperature; Thermistor; File content; Binary Object; Binary Object Media Type; Binary Object File Size; Ice station; ANT-XXIX/6; Polarstern; Antarctic; Austral; The Antarctic; Weddell; Weddell Sea; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.933424; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.933424

Ice mass balance (IMB) buoy data PS81/517 from Weddell Sea, Antarctica, 2013. The buoy was deployed together with an automatic weather station buoy (see under related) on sea ice station PS81/517 from Research Vessel Polarstern in the Antarctic Weddell Sea in austral winter 2013 (cruise leg ANT-XXIX/6, AWECS campaign). The IMB buoy provides data between 2013-07-31T17:28:00 and 2013-10-11T00:30:00.The IMB buoy was kindly provided by the Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS). The IMB buoy consisted of a thermistor string of 5 m length, with a 2 cm sensor spacing. Interfaces were determined by hand. Heating cycle data was of poor quality, so the interfaces were picked mostly based on temperature. The ice interface will be pretty good (~2 cm accuracy), and the snow is probably a bit more inaccurate. The bottom interface was determined from the existence of a knee in the temperature profile where apparent. The top interface was picked based on the transition to constant temperature in the air and the ...