Ground-based electromagnetic (EM) sea-ice thickness retrieval and parallel snow depth measurements on Atka Bay landfast sea ice in 2011 at profile EM31_20111118

Electromagnetic measurements of combined sea-ice thickness and snow depth were performed on the landfast sea ice of Atka Bay, Antarctica.The data were obtained by an EM31 (Geonics) mounted in a kayak and pulled behind a snowmobile along a predefined transect.The EM31 was operated in Vertical CoPlanar (VCP) mode, where the coil plane is oriented perpendicular to the surface. The measured apparent conductivity was calibrated against combined sea-ice thickness and snow depth in the field and the resulting curve was approximated by an exponential function.As the electromagnetic measurements only yield the combined sea ice thickness and snow depth, additional ruler-stick measurements of snow depth were recorded in parallel.These observations contribute to the Antarctic Fast Ice Network (AFIN).

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.789123
PID https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.39903.d001
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.789123
Provenance
Creator Hoppmann, Mario ORCID logo; Nicolaus, Marcel ORCID logo; Asseng, Jölund
Publisher PANGAEA
Contributor Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven
Publication Year 2012
Funding Reference German Research Foundation https://doi.org/10.13039/501100001659 Crossref Funder ID 5472008 https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/5472008 Priority Programme 1158 Antarctic Research with Comparable Investigations in Arctic Sea Ice Areas
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
OpenAccess true
Representation
Resource Type Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 7393 data points
Discipline Natural Sciences; Physics
Spatial Coverage (-8.138W, -70.621S, -7.455E, -70.574N); Atka Bay
Temporal Coverage Begin 2011-11-18T13:49:01Z
Temporal Coverage End 2011-11-18T17:17:03Z