Barneo-2016 buoy data

• Main Authors: Itkin, Polona, Granskog, Mats A., Hudson, Stephen R., Gerland, Sebastian, Pavlov, Alexey, Bratrein, Marius
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: npolar.no 2017
• Subjects: North Pole; Svalbard; Fram Strait; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.21334/npolar.2017.161d5fc2; https://data.npolar.no/dataset/161d5fc2-9daa-439b-a323-037c7b4c10bf

Barneo camp is a temporal tourist camp on sea ice in vicinity of the North pole that is open every year in April. In 2016 NPI took this opportunity and used the existing logistics to deploy 7 autonomous drifters (buoys). The buoys were deployed in a small array with 3 ice mass balance buoys equipped with radiation sensors (incoming, reflected and underwater) deployed in a triangular shape with a distance approximately 2 km from the camp in the center of the array. Additionally, 4 GPS drifters were deployed at about 5 km distance from the camp. The buoys then drifted with the Transpolar Drift current towards the Fram Strait. One of them stopped transmitting, presumably due to a deformation event caused by a storm just one month after deployment, while the rest recorded the drift, snow depth, ice thickness and light properties during the winter to summer transition. Eventually all of them stopped transmitting between July and September 2016, when they reached approximately 84N, north of Svalbard.