Snow depth and ice thickness estimated from the temperature profile or measured by the acoustic sounder of the ice unit of the unmanned ice station during the MOSAiC expedition

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The initial ice thickness and snow depth at the buoy deployment site were 1.53 and 0.15 m, respectively. The changes in ice thickness was determined using measurements by the underwater acoustic sounder. The measuring noise of the acoustic sounder has been removed. Since the acoustic sensor at the surface was invalid very soon after the deployment, the evolution of the air/snow interface was determined using the temperature profiles. Overall, the measurement accuracy was 0.1 K for temperature, 0.03 m for the snow or ice surface, and 0.01 m for the ice bottom, respectively. After the snow cover melted over, the negative values for the snow depth indicate the onset of ice surface melt.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.938480
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.940188
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.2312/BzPM_0744_2020
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.938480
Provenance
Creator Lei, Ruibo ORCID logo; Yuan, Zhuoli; Zuo, Guangyu; Lin, Long; Wang, Hangzhou
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; National Key Research and Development Program of China https://doi.org/10.13039/501100012166 Crossref Funder ID 2016YFC1400303 ; National Key Research and Development Program of China https://doi.org/10.13039/501100012166 Crossref Funder ID 2018YFA0605903 ; National Natural Science Foundation of China https://doi.org/10.13039/501100001809 Crossref Funder ID 41722605 ; National Natural Science Foundation of China https://doi.org/10.13039/501100001809 Crossref Funder ID 41976219
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Resource Type Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 12304 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (-4.956W, 79.759S, 135.529E, 85.128N); Arctic Ocean
Temporal Coverage Begin 2019-10-10T05:13:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2020-06-15T02:00:00Z