Ice and snow thickness measurements from the ArcWatch-2 Expedition

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Here we present data from sled based multi-frequency electro magnetic induction measurements (GEM-2, Geophex Ltd.) for all ice stations visited during the ArcWatch-2 (PS144) Polarstern Expedition to the central Arctic Ocean. Between 2024-08-16 and 2024-09-26 Polarstern was moored to 10 larger ice floes on which the GEM-2 surveys were conducted. Prior to each survey the device was calibrated using a standardized procedure (e.g. Itken et al., 2023). The GEM-2 measures the distance from the snow surface to the ice–ocean interface resulting in a total ice+snow thickness estimate. We therefore included additional snow thickness measurements from a Magnaprobe device carried out along the same transects as the GEM-2 measurements. Both datasets were drift corrected and referenced to local GNSS stations employed at each ice station (Neckel et al., 2025).

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DOI https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.984304
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.2022.00048
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.983769
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Provenance
Creator Kolar, Jonathan ORCID logo; Neckel, Niklas ORCID logo; Rückert, Janna Elisabeth ORCID logo; Bühler, Linnea; Bahlmann, Jonathan; Risse, Nils ORCID logo; Hendricks, Stefan ORCID logo; Neudert, Mara
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2025
Funding Reference Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven https://doi.org/10.13039/501100003207 Crossref Funder ID AWI_PS144_06 SeaIcePhys.
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; Data access is restricted (moratorium, sensitive data, license constraints); https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Resource Type Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 20 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (-142.696W, 84.500S, 42.935E, 89.952N)
Temporal Coverage Begin 2024-08-16T17:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2024-09-26T06:00:00Z