Merged grids of sea-ice or snow freeboard from helicopter-borne laser scanner during the MOSAiC expedition flight 20200116_01, version 1

• Main Authors: Hutter, Nils, Hendricks, Stefan, Jutila, Arttu, Birnbaum, Gerit, von Albedyll, Luisa, Ricker, Robert, Haas, Christian
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2023
• Subjects: 20200116_01; Airborne laser scanning; Arctic Ocean; Binary Object; DATE/TIME; Flight number; Freeboard; HELI; Helicopter; IceSense; LATITUDE; LONGITUDE; MOSAiC; MOSAiC20192020; MOSAIC-HELI; Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate; Polarstern; PS122/2; PS122/2_20-52; Remote Sensing of the Seasonal Evolution of Climate-relevant Sea Ice Properties; Sea ice; Surface Elevation; Arctic; Laptev Sea; Fram Strait; laptev
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.951009; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.951009

This data set is a higher-processing-level version of Gridded segments of sea-ice or snow surface elevation and freeboard from helicopter-borne laser scanner during the MOSAiC expedition, version 1 (Hutter et al., 2022; doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.950339), where the individual 30-second segments of the small scale grid flights have been combined into merged grids. The data were collected using a near-infrared, line-scanning Riegl VQ-580 airborne laser scanner (hdl:10013/sensor.7ebb63c3-dc3b-4f0f-9ca5-f1c6e5462a31 & hdl:10013/sensor.7a931b33-72ca-46d0-b623-156836ac9550) mounted in a helicopter along the MOSAiC drift from the north of the Laptev Sea, across the central Arctic Ocean, and towards the Fram Strait from September 2019 to October 2020. The merged data are stored in netCDF and geotiff format. The data are drift corrected using the position and heading data of RV Polarstern and elevation offset corrected using overlapping segments to overcome degraded GPS altitude data >85°N. For the flights with degraded GPS altitude quality, we provide only a freeboard estimate. The merged grids include all data variables of the gridded 30-s segments: surface elevation, freeboard (estimate), freeboard uncertainty, estimated sea surface height, surface reflectance, echo width, and number of points used in the interpolation. Also the calculated elevation offset correction term is provided for each flight as a csv file.