Snow, surface layer and ice permittivity at 50 MHz measured during RV POLARSTERN cruise PS144

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During the Polarstern cruise PS144 from August 2024 to October 2024 in the central Arctic Ocean dielectric permittivity and dielectric loss of the snow and ice were measured by impedance measurements at 50 MHz during 10 ice stations. Measurements were performed using the Stevens Water Monitoring Systems Hydra Probe Sensor. The cylindrical measurement region of the sensor has a length of 5.7 cm and a diameter of 3 cm. Snow and surface scattering layer (SSL) were measured by inserting the probe tines of the device either vertically or horizontally (in a snowpit), details in the "Comment" column. Ice core samples were obtained with a 9 cm corer. Then a positioning device was used to drill four 3mm holes vertically into the ice core for the Hydra Probe Sensor's central waveguide and outer rods. At what depth the ice was sampled is contained in the "Depth" column, where 0 m is the ice surface. The unique core number relates these measurements to the cores contained in the density and temperature datasets. The dataset also contains temperature, salinity and density measurements (all independent of the device) of the sampled snow or ice cores.For all media, a response was recorded and a repeat measurement was performed right after. The sample type (snow or sea ice, the latter being further distinguished into ice and surface scattering layer (SSL)) is denoted in the "Sample Type" column of the dataset. All measurements were done within the vicinity of the footprint of the onboard microwave radiometers installed for the VAMPIRE project ( https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.990496) (that is, in about 25 m distance to the port bow of Polarstern), further defined in the "Site" column. For more information about these measurements the user is referred to Chapter 6.4 of the cruise report (https://doi.org/10.57738/BZPM_0794_2025).

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DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.993544
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.990496
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.57738/BZPM_0794_2025
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.993544
Provenance
Creator Rückert, Janna Elisabeth ORCID logo; Bühler, Linnu; Risse, Nils ORCID logo
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2026
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. (ArcWatch1/TransArc3); 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
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 1137 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (-136.008W, 84.421S, 42.960E, 89.959N)
Temporal Coverage Begin 2024-08-16T16:03:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2024-09-26T00:40:00Z