Temperature measurements from SIMBA-type sea ice mass balance buoy DS2014

• Main Authors: Li, Na, Lei, Ruibo, Heil, Petra
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2022
• Subjects: DATE/TIME; DS2014; DS2014_SIMBA; East Antarctica; Landfast ice; Latitude of event; Longitude of event; SAMS Ice Mass Balance buoy; Sea ice mass balance; SIMBA; Temperature; technical; Prydz Bay; Antarc*; Antarctica; Sea ice; The Cryosphere
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.950088; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.950088

Temperature and heating-induced temperature differences were measured along a chain of thermistors. SIMBA DS2014 is an autonomous instrument that was installed on landfast ice in Prydz Bay, East Antarctica, in May 2014. The buoy was deployed at 68.57°S; 77.93°E, ~1.5 km northwest of Australian Station Davis with initial thicknesses of snow and ice of 0.06 and 0.58 m, respectively, on 29 May 2014. The thermistor chain was 5 m long and included 240 sensors with a regular spacing of 2cm. 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 depth and time between 29 May and 4 November 2014 in sample intervals of 2~6 hours for temperature and 24 hours for temperature differences.