Physical properties of sea ice cores from site BGC2 measured on legs 1 to 3 of the MOSAiC expedition

• Main Authors: Angelopoulos, Michael, Damm, Ellen, Simões Pereira, Patric, Abrahamsson, Katarina, Bauch, Dorothea, Bowman, Jeff S, Dumitrascu, Adela, Marsay, Christopher M, Rinke, Annette, Sachs, Torsten, Stefels, Jacqueline, Stephens, Mark, Verdugo, Josefa, Wang, Lei, Zhan, Liyang
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2022
• Subjects: AC3; after Cox & Weeks (1983); Arctic Amplification; Arctic Ocean; Arctic Research Icebreaker Consortium: A strategy for meeting the needs for marine-based research in the Arctic; ARICE; brine; DATE/TIME; Density; ice; DEPTH; ice/snow; Estimated from electrical conductivity and temperature of the melted ice samples; Event label; first-year ice; HAVOC; IC; Ice corer; Linear interpolation at the midpoint of the sample based on the measurements from the ice temperature profile; MOSAiC; MOSAiC_BGC; MOSAiC_ECO; MOSAiC_ICE; MOSAiC_SNOW; MOSAiC20192020; MOSAiC expedition; Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate; Polarstern; PS122/1; PS122/1_6-135; PS122/1_8-37; PS122/2; PS122/2_17-29; PS122/2_19-180; PS122/2_23-65; PS122/3; PS122/3_32-6; PS122/3_37-32; Rayleigh number; Ridges - Safe HAVens for ice-associated Flora and Fauna in a Seasonally ice-covered Arctic OCean; Salinity; Sea ice; second-year ice; see comment; Site; Temperature; Temperature and Salinity; Utility; Volume; Arctic; North Pole; Fram Strait
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.943812; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.943812

We present sea ice temperature and salinity data from first-year ice (FYI) and second-year ice (SYI) relevant to the temporal development of sea ice permeability and brine drainage efficiency from the early growth phase in October 2019 to the onset of spring warming in May 2020. Our dataset was collected in the central Arctic Ocean during the Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) Expedition in 2019 to 2020. MOSAiC was an international transpolar drift expedition in which the German icebreaker RV Polarstern anchored into an ice floe to gain new insights into Arctic climate over a full annual cycle. In October 2019, RV Polarstern moored to an ice floe in the Siberian sector of the Arctic at 85 degrees north and 137 degrees east to begin the drift towards the North Pole and the Fram Strait via the Transpolar Drift Stream. The data presented here were collected during the first three legs of the expedition, so all the coring activities took place on the same floe. The end dates of legs 1, 2, and 3 were 13 December, 24 February, and 4 June, respectively. The dataset contributed to a baseline study entitled, Deciphering the properties of different Arctic ice types during the growth phase of the MOSAiC floes: Implications for future studies. The study highlights downward directed gas pathways in FYI and SYI by inferring sea ice permeability and potential brine release from several time series of temperature and salinity measurements. The physical properties presented in this paper lay the foundation for subsequent analyses on actual gas contents measured in the ice cores, as well as air-ice and ice-ocean gas fluxes. Sea ice cores were collected with a Kovacs Mark II 9 cm diameter corer. To measure ice temperatures, about 4.5 cm deep holes were drilled into the core (intervals varied by site and leg) . The temperatures were measured by a digital thermometer within minutes after the cores were retrieved. The ice cores were placed into pre-labelled plastic sleeves sealed at the ...