Snow height on sea ice, meteorological conditions and drift of sea ice from autonomous measurements from buoy 2019S79, deployed during MOSAiC 2019/20

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Snow height was measured by the Snow Buoy 2019S79, an autonomous platform, installed on drifting sea ice in the Arctic Ocean during MOSAiC (Leg 1) 2019/20. The resulting time series describes the evolution of snow height as a function of place and time between 07 Oct 2019 and 28 Nov 2010 in sample intervals of 1 hour. The Snow Buoy consists of four independent sonar measurements representing the area (approx. 10 m**2) around the buoy. The buoy was installed on pack ice. In addition to snow height, geographic position (GPS), barometric pressure, air temperature, and ice surface temperature were measured. Negative values of snow height occur if surface ablation continues into the sea ice. Thus, these measurements describe the position of the sea ice surface relative to the original snow-ice interface. Differences between single sensors indicate small-scale variability of the snow pack around the buoy. The data set has been processed, including the removal of obvious inconsistencies (missing values). Records without any snow height may still be used for sea ice drift and meteorological analyses.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.923187
Related Identifier IsDocumentedBy https://store.pangaea.de/Projects/MOSAiC/2019S79/2019S79_deployment.pdf
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.923187
Provenance
Creator Nicolaus, Marcel ORCID logo; Hoppmann, Mario ORCID logo; Lei, Ruibo ORCID logo; Belter, Hans Jakob (ORCID: 0000-0001-9383-911X); Fang, Ying-Chih ORCID logo; Rohde, Jan
Publisher PANGAEA
Contributor Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven
Publication Year 2020
Funding Reference Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven https://doi.org/10.13039/501100003207 Crossref Funder ID AFMOSAiC-1_00 Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate; Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven https://doi.org/10.13039/501100003207 Crossref Funder ID AWI_PS122_00 Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate / MOSAiC
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Representation
Resource Type Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 8453 data points
Discipline Natural Sciences; Physics
Spatial Coverage (117.911W, 84.548S, 137.639E, 86.006N); Arctic Ocean
Temporal Coverage Begin 2019-10-07T02:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2019-11-28T08:02:00Z