(Table 1) White ice and melt pond characteristics in Darnley and Franklin Bay, Canada

• Main Authors: Ehn, Jens K, Mundy, Christopher John, Barber, David G, Hop, Haakon, Rossnagel, Andrea L, Stewart, Jeremy
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2011
• Subjects: Amundsen Gulf; Canada; Darnley_Bay_Site1; Darnley_Bay_Site3; DATE/TIME; Event label; Franklin_Bay_Site2; Franklin_Bay_Site4; Freeboard; Ice draft; ICEM; Ice measurement; International Polar Year (2007-2008); International Polar Year 2007-2008; IPY; IPY-4; Irradiance; incident; photosynthetically active; Melt pond depth; Melt pond freeboard; Sample type; Sea ice thickness; Site; Transmittance; Water level; albedo; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Franklin Bay; International Polar Year; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.809476; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.809476

Melt pond covered sea ice is a ubiquitous feature of the summertime Arctic Ocean when meltwater collects in lower-lying areas of ice surfaces. Horizontal transects were conducted during June 2008 above and below landfast sea ice with melt ponds to characterize surface and bottom topography together...