Sea ice drift from SVP buoys deployed in western Fram Strait in spring 2022 ...

• Main Authors: Salganik, Evgenii, Gerland, Sebastian, Granskog, Mats A., Landy, Jack, Itkin, Polona, Eltoft, Torbjørn
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Norwegian Polar Institute, UiT Arctic University of Norway 2023
• Subjects: Arctic; Fram Strait; Iceberg*; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.21334/npolar.2023.ab9371f7; https://data.npolar.no/dataset/ab9371f7-542f-4e07-beb0-3d2771d1d111

This dataset consists of three MetOcean SVP (Surface velocity profilers, MetOcean 2014) buoys deployed on Arctic sea ice during the CIRFA 2022 cruise in western Fram Strait (see Figure 1). At the time of the deployment the sea ice was stationary (fast ice) due to connection to grounded icebergs. Later (June 5, 2022, for SVP #1; June 20, 2022, for SVP #2 and SVP #3) the fast ice disconnected and started drifting. Each SVP includes a GPS, air pressure and temperature sensors connected to an Iridium modem and mounted inside a waterproof ruggedized buoy. Data are time series and include time, latitude, longitude, air temperature inside buoy (°C), air pressure (mbar), pressure tendency (mbar), and battery voltage (V) for each of the three buoys after they were deployed (see Table 1). The measurement interval was initially 60 minutes, then changed in July 2022 to 30 minutes, later in November 2022 changed to one reading per 24 hours or 48 hours (see Table 2). The time series ended when the buoys became stationary ...