Jutila, Arttu; King, Joshua; Ricker, Robert; Hendricks, Stefan; Helm, Veit; Binder, Tobias; Haas, Christian (2021): Airborne snow depth on sea ice during the IceBird Winter 2019 campaign in the Arctic Ocean, Version 1 [dataset publication series]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.932790
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Abstract:
Airborne observations of snow depth on sea ice were made in April 2019 during the winter campaign of the AWI IceBird campaign series. The data consist of five surveys, some with overlapping segments at low and high altitude, spanning sea-ice covered areas in the Lincoln Sea, Central Arctic Ocean, as well as the Beaufort Sea. For each flight, the geolocated snow depth data from an airborne frequency-modulated continuous-wave ultrawideband radar using an algorithm based on signal peakiness are provided with a point spacing of approximately 4-5 meters for low-altitude flights and 7-9 meters for high-altitude flights. The trajectory data contain the full and unfiltered data record with quality flags. Longer sections of altitude-flagged data in the low-altitude data arise from calibrations of an EM sensor. Each snow depth value represents the average depth within the radar footprint that has a theoretical smooth surface cross-/along-track diameter of 2.6/1.0 m at low altitude and 7.2/5.1 m at the high altitude.
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Jutila, Arttu; King, Joshua; Paden, John D; Ricker, Robert; Hendricks, Stefan; Polashenski, Chris; Helm, Veit; Binder, Tobias; Haas, Christian (2021): High-Resolution Snow Depth on Arctic Sea Ice From Low-Altitude Airborne Microwave Radar Data. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 1-16, https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2021.3063756
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Sea Ice Physics @ AWI (AWI_SeaIce)
Coverage:
Median Latitude: 76.357710 * Median Longitude: -109.846952 * South-bound Latitude: 70.022521 * West-bound Longitude: -132.759383 * North-bound Latitude: 84.539129 * East-bound Longitude: -54.169864
Date/Time Start: 2019-04-02T16:28:44 * Date/Time End: 2019-04-10T18:54:13
Change history:
2021-09-14T14:08:42 – In the abstract, "7.2/13.0 m at the high altitude" was changed to "7.2/5.1 m at the high altitude"
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY-4.0)
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- Jutila, A; King, J; Ricker, R et al. (2021): Airborne high-altitude snow depth on sea ice during aircraft flight P6_217_ICEBIRD_2019_1904020901, Version 1. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.932780
- Jutila, A; King, J; Ricker, R et al. (2021): Airborne low-altitude snow depth on sea ice during aircraft flight P6_217_ICEBIRD_2019_1904020901, Version 1. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.932782
- Jutila, A; King, J; Ricker, R et al. (2021): Airborne low-altitude snow depth on sea ice during aircraft flight P6_217_ICEBIRD_2019_1904051001, Version 1. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.932785
- Jutila, A; King, J; Ricker, R et al. (2021): Airborne low-altitude snow depth on sea ice during aircraft flight P6_217_ICEBIRD_2019_1904071201, Version 1. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.932786
- Jutila, A; King, J; Ricker, R et al. (2021): Airborne low-altitude snow depth on sea ice during aircraft flight P6_217_ICEBIRD_2019_1904081301, Version 1. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.932787
- Jutila, A; King, J; Ricker, R et al. (2021): Airborne high-altitude snow depth on sea ice during aircraft flight P6_217_ICEBIRD_2019_1904101401, Version 1. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.932789
- Jutila, A; King, J; Ricker, R et al. (2021): Airborne low-altitude snow depth on sea ice during aircraft flight P6_217_ICEBIRD_2019_1904101401, Version 1. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.932788