Thickness and properties of sea ice and snow of land-fast sea ice in Atka Bay in 2015

• Main Authors: Arndt, Stefanie, Ludewig, Elke, Nicolaus, Marcel
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2018
• Subjects: AFIN; Air temperature at 2 m height; Antarctic Fast Ice Network; ANT-Land_2002-2009_ATKA; Atka_Ice_Port; Atka Bay; AWI_SeaIce; Comment; DATE/TIME; Digital thermometer; Freeboard; LATITUDE; LONGITUDE; NEUMAYER III; OBSE; Observation; Priority Programme 1158 Antarctic Research with Comparable Investigations in Arctic Sea Ice Areas; RULER; Ruler stick; Sample code/label; Sea Ice Physics @ AWI; Sea ice thickness; Snow thickness; SPP1158; Sub-ice platelet-layer thickness; Temperature; air; ice/snow; water; Antarc*; Antarctic; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.889281; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.889281

Manual measurements of sea ice thickness, sub-ice platelet layer thickness, freeboard, and snow thickness are distributed evenly and repeated along a 25km-long transect across Atka Bay every 2 to 4 weeks. At each measurement location, 5 holes were drilled through the ice in order to determine the aforementioned parameters, one in the center and one in a distance of five meters in each direction, to cover their small-scale spatial variabilities. The measurements have been mainly conducted by the meteorologist (Elke Ludewig), Anderas Leonhardt, Jens-Peter Biethant, Annamarie Sticher and Bettina Nekat, all of the overwintering team.