Snowpit surface type observed during the MOSAiC expedition

• Main Authors: Macfarlane, Amy R, Schneebeli, Martin, Dadic, Ruzica, Wagner, David N, Arndt, Stefanie, Clemens-Sewall, David, Hämmerle, Stefan, Hannula, Henna-Reetta, Jaggi, Matthias, Kolabutin, Nikolai, Krampe, Daniela, Lehning, Michael, Matero, Ilkka, Nicolaus, Marcel, Oggier, Marc, Pirazzini, Roberta, Polashenski, Chris, Raphael, Ian, Regnery, Julia, Shimanchuck, Egor, Smith, Madison M, Tavri, Aikaterini
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2022
• Subjects: Arctic Ocean; Arctic Research Icebreaker Consortium: A strategy for meeting the needs for marine-based research in the Arctic; ARICE; MOSAiC; MOSAiC20192020; Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate; Polarstern; PS122/2; PS122/2_19-128; PS122/2_19-129; PS122/2_19-131; PS122/2_19-132; PS122/2_19-133; PS122/2_19-134; PS122/2_19-135; PS122/2_19-137; PS122/2_19-142; PS122/2_19-144; PS122/2_19-75; PS122/2_19-92; PS122/2_20-4; PS122/2_20-80; PS122/2_20-83; PS122/2_22-43; PS122/2_22-61; PS122/2_22-66; PS122/2_22-67; PS122/2_22-68; PS122/2_22-69; PS122/2_23-105; PS122/2_23-2; PS122/2_23-34; PS122/2_23-53; PS122/2_23-75; PS122/2_23-76; PS122/2_23-77; PS122/2_23-9; PS122/2_24-112; PS122/2_24-113; PS122/2_24-35; PS122/2_25-59; PS122/2_25-60; PS122/2_25-61; PS122/2_25-62; PS122/2_25-63; PS122/2_25-80; PS122/2_25-81; PS122/3; PS122/3_29-43; PS122/3_30-17; Arctic; Rime
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.940198; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.940198

For the majority of snowpits the snow surface type was recorded by the observer. The documented surface types include; new snow, rime, surface hoar, glazed, drifted snow, wet, visible dust, frost flowers, surface crust, surface scattering layer, jewel snow, frozen. Please direct inquiries to; David Wagner (PS122/1), Martin Schneebeli (PS122/2), Amy Macfarlane (PS122/3 and PS122/4), Ruzica Dadic (PS122/5).