Airborne low-altitude snow depth on sea ice during aircraft flight P6_217_ICEBIRD_2019_1904071201, Version 1

• Main Authors: Jutila, Arttu, King, Joshua, Ricker, Robert, Hendricks, Stefan, Helm, Veit, Binder, Tobias, Haas, Christian
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2021
• Subjects: AC; Airborne Laserscanner (ALS) RIEGL VQ580; Airborne surveys to collect measurements of sea ice thickness in the Arctic; Airborne ultrawideband radar; Aircraft; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; AWI_IceBird; AWI_SeaIce; AWI - IceBird; Bin number; Calculated; Comment; Cryosphere; DATE/TIME; Fast time range per bin; Flag; Flight altitude; Infrared radiation pyrometer Heitronics KT19.85II; Internal Navigation System; LATITUDE; LONGITUDE; P6_217_ICEBIRD_2019; P6_217_ICEBIRD_2019_1904071201; Pitch angle; POLAR 6; Reference/source; Refractive index; Roll angle; Sea ice; Sea Ice Physics @ AWI; snow depth; Snow thickness; uncertainty; Surface temperature; Surface topography; relative; Beaufort Sea; Lincoln Sea; ice covered areas
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.932786; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.932786

Airborne observations of snow depth on sea ice were made in April 2019 during the winter campaign of the AWI IceBird campaign series. The data consist of five surveys, some with overlapping segments at low and high altitude, spanning sea-ice covered areas in the Lincoln Sea, Central Arctic Ocean, as well as the Beaufort Sea. For each flight, the geolocated snow depth data from an airborne frequency-modulated continuous-wave ultrawideband radar using an algorithm based on signal peakiness are provided with a point spacing of approximately 4-5 meters for low-altitude flights and 7-9 meters for high-altitude flights. The trajectory data contain the full and unfiltered data record with quality flags. Longer sections of altitude-flagged data in the low-altitude data arise from calibrations of an EM sensor. Each snow depth value represents the average depth within the radar footprint that has a theoretical smooth surface cross-/along-track diameter of 2.6/1.0 m at low altitude and 7.2/5.1 m at the high altitude.