Temperature and heating induced temperature difference measurements from SIMBA-type sea ice mass balance buoy 2019T62, deployed during MOSAiC 2019/20

• Main Authors: Lei, Ruibo, Cheng, Bin, Hoppmann, Mario, Zuo, Guangyu, Lan, Musheng
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2022
• Subjects: 2019T62; PRIC_09_01; Arctic Ocean; Coring site; Heating rise; INTAROS; Integrated Arctic observation system; MOSAiC; MOSAiC_ICE; MOSAiC20192020; Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate; Polarstern; PS122/1; PS122/1_1-125; PS122/4; PS122/4_43-156; SAMS Ice Mass Balance buoy; Sea ice mass balance; SIMBA; Temperature; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.940231; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.940231

Temperature and heating-induced temperature differences were measured along a chain of thermistors. SIMBA 2019T62 (a.k.a. PRIC_09_01,IRIDIUM number 300234068706290) is an autonomous instrument that was installed on drifting sea ice in the Arctic Ocean during the 1st leg of the Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) in October 2019. The buoy was deployed at the second year coring site of the MOSAiC central observatory with initial thicknesses of snow and ice of 0.18 and 0.80 m, respectively, on 29 October 2019. The thermistor chain was 5 m long and included 241 sensors with a regular spacing of 2 cm. The depths for the sensors are 96 to -382 cm, referring to the initial interface between snow and ice. The last sensor was used to measure the air temperature at 1 m above the initial snow surface. The resulting time series describes the evolution of temperature and temperature differences after two heating cycles of 30 and 120 s as a function of place, depth and time between 29 October 2019 and 28 July 2020 in sample intervals of 6 hours for temperature and 24 hours for temperature differences. In addition to temperature, geographic position, barometric pressure, tilt and compass were measured until 1 August 2020.