Snow height on sea ice and sea ice drift from autonomous measurements from buoy 2014S17, deployed during POLARSTERN cruise ANT-XXX/2 (PS89)

Snow height was measured by the Snow Depth Buoy 2014S17, an autonomous platform, drifting on Antarctic sea ice, deployed during POLARSTERN cruise ANT-XXX/2 (PS89). The resulting time series describes the evolution of snow depth as a function of place and time between 20 Dec 2014 and 01 Feb 2015 in s...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Nicolaus, Marcel, Schwegmann, Sandra
Format: Dataset
Language:English
Published: PANGAEA 2015
Subjects:
2014S17
ACROSS
Advanced Remote Sensing – Ground-Truth Demo and Test Facilities
AWI_SeaIce
Buoy
DATE/TIME
LATITUDE
Lazarev Sea
LONGITUDE
Pressure
atmospheric
Sea Ice Physics @ AWI
Snow height
Temperature
air
technical
Antarctic
Lazarev
Antarc*
Sea ice
Online Access:https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.846858
https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.846858
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Summary:Snow height was measured by the Snow Depth Buoy 2014S17, an autonomous platform, drifting on Antarctic sea ice, deployed during POLARSTERN cruise ANT-XXX/2 (PS89). The resulting time series describes the evolution of snow depth as a function of place and time between 20 Dec 2014 and 01 Feb 2015 in sample intervals of 1 hour. The Snow Depth Buoy consists of four independent sonar measurements representing the area (approx. 10 m**2) around the buoy. The buoy was installed on first year ice. In addition to snow depth, geographic position (GPS), barometric pressure, air temperature, and ice surface temperature were measured. Negative values of snow depth 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, including the removal of obvious inconsistencies (missing values). In this data set, diurnal variations occur in the data set, although the sonic readings were compensated for temperature changes. Records without any snow depth may still be used for sea ice drift analyses.

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