Physical properties of sea ice cores for biogeochemistry studies measured on legs 1 to 3 of the MOSAiC expedition

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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 bottom end. The ice cores were transported to RV Polarstern and stored in a -20 degrees Celsius freezer. Each of the cores was sub-sampled, melted at room temperature, and processed for salinity within one or two days. The practical salinity was estimated by measuring the electrical conductivity and temperature of the melted samples using a WTW Cond 3151 salinometer equipped with a Tetra-Con 325 four-electrode conductivity cell. The practical salinity represents the the salinity estimated from the electrical conductivity of the solution. The dataset also contains derived variables, including sea ice density, brine volume fraction, and the Rayleigh number.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.943811
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2022.864523
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Creator Angelopoulos, Michael ORCID logo; Damm, Ellen ORCID logo; Simões Pereira, Patric; Abrahamsson, Katarina; Bauch, Dorothea ORCID logo; Bowman, Jeff S ORCID logo; Castellani, Giulia (ORCID: 0000-0001-6151-015X); Creamean, Jessie ORCID logo; Divine, Dmitry V ORCID logo; Dumitrascu, Adela; Eggers, Lena; Fong, Allison A ORCID logo; Fons, Steven W ORCID logo; Gradinger, Rolf ORCID logo; Granskog, Mats A ORCID logo; Grosse, Julia ORCID logo; Haapala, Jari ORCID logo; Haas, Christian ORCID logo; Hoppe, Clara Jule Marie ORCID logo; Høyland, Knut Vilhelm; Immerz, Antonia ORCID logo; Kolabutin, Nikolai; Krumpen, Thomas ORCID logo; Lei, Ruibo ORCID logo; Marsay, Christopher M ORCID logo; Maus, Sönke; Nicolaus, Marcel ORCID logo; Nubom, Alexey; Oggier, Marc ORCID logo; Olsen, Lasse Mørk; Rember, Robert ORCID logo; Ren, Jian ORCID logo; Rinke, Annette ORCID logo; Sachs, Torsten ORCID logo; Sheikin, Igor; Shimanchuk, Egor; Torres-Valdés, Sinhué ORCID logo; Spahic, Susanne; Stefels, Jacqueline; Stephens, Mark ORCID logo; Torstensson, Anders (ORCID: 0000-0002-8283-656X); Ulfsbo, Adam ORCID logo; Verdugo, Josefa ORCID logo; Wang, Lei ORCID logo; Wischnewski, Laura; Zhan, Liyang
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2022
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; Dutch Research Council https://doi.org/10.13039/501100003246 Crossref Funder ID 866.18.002 Artic Sea Ice-Pelagic coupling of the Carbon and Sulfur cycles; German Research Foundation https://doi.org/10.13039/501100001659 Crossref Funder ID 268020496 https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/268020496 TRR 172: ArctiC Amplification: Climate Relevant Atmospheric and SurfaCe Processes, and Feedback Mechanisms; German Research Foundation https://doi.org/10.13039/501100001659 Crossref Funder ID 414169436 https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/414169436?language=en ALEXIA - Analysis Linking Arctic Methane, Carbon Release, Heat Fluxes and Sea Ice from Local to Sub-Regional Scales by Airborne Measurements; German Research Foundation https://doi.org/10.13039/501100001659 Crossref Funder ID 429838323 https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/429838323?language=en Interplay between seasonal arctic sea-ice processes and halocline stability - towards understanding arctic gas and matter fluxes; Horizon 2020 https://doi.org/10.13039/501100007601 Crossref Funder ID 730965 doi:10.3030/730965 Arctic Research Icebreaker Consortium: A strategy for meeting the needs for marine-based research in the Arctic (ARICE); National Aeronautics and Space Administration https://doi.org/10.13039/100000104 Crossref Funder ID Cryospheric Sciences 2020 Internal Scientist Funding Model (ISFM); National Natural Science Foundation of China https://doi.org/10.13039/501100001809 Crossref Funder ID 41676186 Influence of Arctic Rapid Melting Ice on N2O Source and Sink Pattern in Northwestern Ocean; National Science Foundation https://doi.org/10.13039/100000001 Crossref Funder ID 1735862 https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1735862 Chemical, Physical and Biological processes linking snow and sea ice to the Arctic Ocean mixed layer: Improving models through the MOSAiC platform; National Science Foundation https://doi.org/10.13039/100000001 Crossref Funder ID 1753418 https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1753418 Collaborative Research: Defining the Atmospheric Deposition of Trace eEements into the Arctic Ocean-Ice Ecosystem During the Year-Long MOSAIC Ice Drift; National Science Foundation https://doi.org/10.13039/100000001 Crossref Funder ID 1753423 https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1753423 Collaborative Research: Defining the Atmospheric Deposition of Trace Elements into the Arctic Ocean-Ice Ecosystem During the Year-Long MOSAiC Ice Drift; National Science Foundation https://doi.org/10.13039/100000001 Crossref Funder ID 1821911 https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1821911 Collaborative Research: Quantifying microbial controls on the annual cycle of methane and oxygen within the ultraoligotrophic Central Arctic during MOSAiC; Swedish Research Council https://doi.org/10.13039/501100004359 Crossref Funder ID 2018-01398_Formas https://www.vr.se/english/swecris.html#/project/2018-01398_Formas Drivers of anthropogenic changes in carbon storage and ocean acidification in the new Arctic Ocean (DRACO2); The Research Council of Norway https://doi.org/10.13039/501100005416 Crossref Funder ID 280292 https://prosjektbanken.forskningsradet.no/en/project/FORISS/280292 Ridges - Safe HAVens for ice-associated Flora and Fauna in a Seasonally ice-covered Arctic OCean
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Resource Type Publication Series of Datasets; Collection
Format application/zip
Size 6 datasets
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (12.799W, 83.761S, 136.148E, 88.183N)
Temporal Coverage Begin 2019-10-05T00:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2020-05-09T00:00:00Z