Snow stratigraphy measurements at ice stations during POLARSTERN cruise PS118

• Main Author: Arndt, Stefanie
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2021
• Subjects: AWI_SeaIce; DATE/TIME; DEPTH; ice/snow; Event label; Hardness; snow; ICE; Ice station; International Classification for Seasonal Snow on the Ground according to Fierz et al. (2009); LATITUDE; LONGITUDE; Polarstern; Priority Programme 1158 Antarctic Research with Comparable Investigations in Arctic Sea Ice Areas; PS118; PS118_20190222_1; PS118_20190223_2; PS118_20190224_3; PS118_20190226_4; PS118_20190301_5; PS118_20190302_6; PS118_20190304_7; PS118_20190307_8; PS118_20190312_9; PS118_20190313_10; PS118_20190314_11; PS118_20190315_12; PS118_20190316_13; PS118_20190322_15; Sample code/label; Sea Ice Physics @ AWI; Snow grain size; maximum; minimum; Snow grain type; SPP1158; Weddell Sea; Wetness; Antarc*; Antarctic; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.929010; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.929010

Measurements were obtained doing classical snow pits at all ice stations during PS118. Snow pits were taken at representative locations of the floe. Measurements were done on an undisturbed shaded working wall of the snow pit.