Snow height on sea ice and sea ice drift from autonomous measurements from buoy 2022S116, deployed during Charcot expedition 2022 ...

• Main Authors: Nicolaus, Marcel, Graupner, Steffen
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: PANGAEA 2024
• Subjects: autonomous platform; buoy; drift; Sea ice; snow depth; DATE/TIME; LATITUDE; LONGITUDE; Snow height; Pressure, atmospheric; Temperature, air; Temperature, technical; Global positioning system, time since last fix; Quality flag, snow height; Quality flag, atmospheric pressure; Quality flag, air temperature; Quality flag, technical temperature; Quality flag, position; Snow buoy; Current sea ice maps for Arctic and Antarctic meereisportal.de; International Arctic Buoy Program IABP; Sea Ice Physics @ AWI AWI_SeaIce; Antarc*; Antarctic; Arctic; International Arctic Buoy Program; North Pole
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.964923; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.964923

Snow height was measured by the Snow Buoy 2022S116, an autonomous platform, drifting on Arctic sea ice, deployed during the expedition with Le Commandant Charcot in 2022. The resulting time series describes the evolution of snow height as a function of place and time between 14 Jul 2022 and 27 Jan 2023 in sample intervals of 1 hour. The Snow Buoy consists of four independent sonar measurements representing the area (approx. 10 m**2) around the buoy. The buoy was installed close to the North Pole. In addition to snow depth, geographic position (GPS), barometric pressure, air temperature, and an internal ice temperature were measured. Negative values of snow height occur if surface ablation continues into the sea ice. Thus, these measurements describe the position of the sea ice surface relative to the original snow-ice interface. Differences between single sensors indicate small-scale variability of the snow pack around the buoy. The data set has been processed and contains quality flags for different kinds ...