Snow height on sea ice and sea ice drift from autonomous measurements from buoy 2015S23, deployed during the Norwegian Young sea ICE cruise N-ICE 2015

Snow height was measured by the Snow Depth Buoy 2015S23, an autonomous platform, drifting on Arctic sea ice, deployed during the Norwegian Young sea ICE cruise (N-ICE 2015) project. The resulting time series describes the evolution of snow depth as a function of place and time between 20 Apr 2015 an...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Nicolaus, Marcel, Itkin, Polona, Maass, Nina
Format: Dataset
Language:English
Published: PANGAEA 2017
Subjects:
2015S23
ACROSS
Advanced Remote Sensing – Ground-Truth Demo and Test Facilities
Arctic Ocean
BUOY_SNOW
DATE/TIME
LATITUDE
LONGITUDE
Pressure
atmospheric
Snow buoy
Snow height
Temperature
air
technical
Sea ice
Online Access:https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.875327
https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.875327
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Summary:Snow height was measured by the Snow Depth Buoy 2015S23, an autonomous platform, drifting on Arctic sea ice, deployed during the Norwegian Young sea ICE cruise (N-ICE 2015) project. The resulting time series describes the evolution of snow depth as a function of place and time between 20 Apr 2015 and 11 Jun 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 an internal ice 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). Records without any snow depth may still be used for sea ice drift analyses.

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