Snow height on sea ice and sea ice drift from autonomous measurements from buoy 2019S104, deployed during LIA 2019

Snow height was measured by the Snow Depth Buoy 2019S104, an autonomous platform, drifting on Arctic sea ice, deployed during the Last Ice Area project LIA 2019. The resulting time series describes the evolution of snow depth as a function of place and time between 19 April 2019 and 25 May 2019 in s...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Lange, Benjamin Allen, Duerksen, Steve, Katlein, Christian, Nicolaus, Marcel
Format: Dataset
Language:English
Published: PANGAEA 2019
Subjects:
2019S104
autonomous platform
AWI_SeaIce
buoy
DATE/TIME
drift
LATITUDE
Lincoln Sea
LONGITUDE
Pressure
atmospheric
Sea Ice Physics @ AWI
snow depth
Snow height
relative
Temperature
air
technical
Arctic
Sea ice
Online Access:https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.905728
https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.905728
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Summary:Snow height was measured by the Snow Depth Buoy 2019S104, an autonomous platform, drifting on Arctic sea ice, deployed during the Last Ice Area project LIA 2019. The resulting time series describes the evolution of snow depth as a function of place and time between 19 April 2019 and 25 May 2019 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 height 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. Note: This data set contains only relative changes in snow height, because no initial readings of absolute snow height are available.

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