Snow height on sea ice and sea ice drift from autonomous measurements from buoy 2016S38, deployed during POLARSTERN cruise PS96 (ANT-XXXI/2)

Snow height was measured by the Snow Depth Buoy 2016S38, an autonomous platform, drifting on Antarctic sea ice, during POLARSTERN cruise ANT-XXXI/2 (PS96). The resulting time series describes the evolution of snow depth as a function of place and time between 15 Jan 2016 and 08 May 2017 in sample in...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Arndt, Stefanie, Rossmann, Leonard, Nicolaus, Marcel
Format: Dataset
Language:English
Published: PANGAEA 2018
Subjects:
2016S38
ACROSS
Advanced Remote Sensing – Ground-Truth Demo and Test Facilities
BUOY_SNOW
DATE/TIME
LATITUDE
LONGITUDE
Pressure
atmospheric
Snow buoy
Snow height
Temperature
air
technical
Weddell Sea
Antarc*
Antarctic
Sea ice
Online Access:https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.887810
https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.887810
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Summary:Snow height was measured by the Snow Depth Buoy 2016S38, an autonomous platform, drifting on Antarctic sea ice, during POLARSTERN cruise ANT-XXXI/2 (PS96). The resulting time series describes the evolution of snow depth as a function of place and time between 15 Jan 2016 and 08 May 2017 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 multi 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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