Raw files for sea ice drift tracks from the Distributed Network of autonomous buoys deployed during the Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) expedition 2019 - 2021

• Main Authors: Bliss, Angela, Hutchings, Jennifer, Anderson, Philip, Anhaus, Philipp, Belter, Hans Jakob, Berge, Jørgen, Bessonov, Vladimir, Cheng, Bin, Cole, Sylvia, Costa, Dave, Cottier, Finlo, Cox, Christopher J, De La Torre, Pedro R, Divine, Dmitry V, Emzivat, Gilbert, Fang, Ying-Chih, Fons, Steven, Gallagher, Michael, Geoffrey, Maxime, Granskog, Mats A, Haapala, Jari, Haas, Christian, Hoppmann, Mario, Høyland, Knut V, Hwang, Byongjun, Itkin, Polona, Johnsen, Geir, Juttila, Arttu, Kanzow, Torsten, Katlein, Christian, Kopec, Tomasz, Krishfield, Rick, Krumpen, Thomas, Kuznetsov, Ivan, Lange, Benjamin, Lei, Ruibo, Li, Tao, Mäkynen, Marko, Moore, Ryleigh, Morgenstern, Anne, Morris, Sara M, Nicolaus, Marcel, Olsen, Lasse M, Osborn, Jackson, Perovich, Don, Persson, Ola, Petrovsky, Tomasz, Rabe, Benjamin, Raphael, Ian, Regnery, Julia, Ricker, Robert, Riemann-Campe, Kathrin, Rohde, Jan, Salganik, Evgenii, Shaw, Bill, Sheikin, Igor, Shupe, Matthew D, Smolyanitsky, Vasily, Sokolov, Vladimir, Stanton, Tim, Tao, Ran, Timofeeva, Anna, Toole, John, Uttal, Taneil, Vogedes, Daniel, Watkins, Daniel, Zhu, Jialiang, Zolich, Artur, Zuo, Guangyu
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: NSF Arctic Data Center 2021
• Subjects: cryosphere; sea ice; ice deformation; sea ice motion; buoy position; Arctic; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.18739/a2kd1qm54; https://arcticdata.io/catalog/view/doi:10.18739/A2KD1QM54

This is the raw position data for ice-tethered buoys deployed in the Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) expedition Distributed Network (DN). The largest ever network of autonomous ice-tethered buoys was deployed as a DN surrounding the MOSAiC Central Observatory (CO). This extensive network of 112 Global Positioning System (GPS) buoys and 12 multi-instrumented ice stations captured the annual cycle of Arctic sea ice drift and deformation for the first time as the DN traversed the Transpolar Drift Stream. GPS position data from buoys deployed during the year-long MOSAiC experiment capture sea ice drift and deformation at spatial scales ranging from 100s of meters to 200 kilometers (km) from late September 2019 into 2021.