The ice mass balance and CT package data of the buoy unmanned ice station collected in Arctic Ocean during the MOSAiC expedition 2019/2020

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One unmanned ice station (UIS) has been deployed at the L3 site (85.13ºN, 135.68ºE) of the Distributed Network (DN) of the Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) campaign on 10 October 2019. The UIS is a new prototype of IMB assembled by the Polar Research Institute of China, which consists of two separate units (ice and ocean) to measure physical parameters of the air-snow-sea ice-ocean system. For the ice unit, two acoustic sensors (Campbell SR50A and Teledyne-Benthos PSA916, respectively) are used to measure the relative changes in the position of the air/snow and ice/water interfaces. Thermistors (Maxim Integrated DS28EA00) mounted at 0.03 m spacing along a 4.5-m thermistor chain were used to measure temperature profiles. Air temperature and relative humidity (Vaisala HMP155A), as well as barometric pressure (Vaisala CS106), were measured at 1.5 m height above the initial snow surface. The UIS ocean unit (CT package) consisted of five conductivity & temperature sensors (RBR duo CT), one conductivity, and temperature & depth (pressure) sensor (RBR concerto CTD). The ocean unit were used to measure upper ocean at the depths of about 5-40 m, with the initial depths of 5.4, 10.4, 15.4, 20.4, 25.4, and 40.4 m. The ice and ocean units of UIS were deployed 10 m apart. 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. The changes in the depths of CT sensors were estimated based on their initial depths and the depth measured by the CTD at the bottom of CT package. The measurement of the UIS ice unit lasted until 15 June 2020 when the buoy drifted to 82.28°N; while the ocean unit lasted until 28 September 2020 and finally failed at 74.09°N.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.940188
Related Identifier References 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.940188
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/
OpenAccess true
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Resource Type Bundled Publication of Datasets; Collection
Format application/zip
Size 5 datasets
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (-17.667W, 74.098S, 136.138E, 88.658N); Arctic Ocean
Temporal Coverage Begin 2019-10-09T07:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2020-09-28T21:02:00Z