Sea ice and snow characteristics from year-long transects at the MOSAiC Central Observatory

• Published in: Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene
• Main Authors: Itkin, Polona, Hendricks, Stefan, Webster, Melinda A., Albedyll, Luisa von, Arndt, Stefanie, Divine, Dmitry, Jaggi, Matthias, Oggier, Marc, Raphael, Ian A., Ricker, Robert, Rohde, Jan, Schneebeli, Martin, Liston, Glen E.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: University of California Press 2023
• Subjects: Arctic; Finnes; Polhav*; Polhavet; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10037/30187; https://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.2022.00048

Repeated transects have become the backbone of spatially distributed ice and snow thickness measurements crucial for understanding of ice mass balance. Here we detail the transects at the Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) 2019–2020, which represent the f...