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Macfarlane, Amy R; Schneebeli, Martin; Dadic, Ruzica; Wagner, David N; Arndt, Stefanie; Clemens-Sewall, David; Hämmerle, Stefan; Hannula, Henna-Reetta; Jaggi, Matthias; Kolabutin, Nikolai; Krampe, Daniela; Lehning, Michael; Matero, Ilkka; Nicolaus, Marcel; Oggier, Marc; Pirazzini, Roberta; Polashenski, Chris; Raphael, Ian; Regnery, Julia; Shimanchuck, Egor; Smith, Madison M; Tavri, Aikaterini (2021): Snowpit raw data collected during the MOSAiC expedition [dataset bundled publication]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.935934

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Abstract:
This dataset captures the yearlong evolution of physical properties of the snow cover over Arctic sea ice during the MOSAiC expedition (October 2019-September 2020). It also includes the surface scattering layer that is typical of the melting summer sea ice surface. This dataset is specifically for measurements that were logged as “snowpit events” during MOSAiC. The snowpit events were either detailed point-measurements of vertical snow profiles or horizontally repeated transects, measured at selected locations in designated undisturbed areas. One snowpit event corresponds to one site visit. The snowpits are often co-located with measurements from other MOSAiC teams to improve our understanding of how snow cover affects and interacts with the atmosphere-sea ice-ocean-ecology system. Most snowpits were measured at least bi-weekly to capture the temporal evolution of physical properties of snow. Some snowpits were one-off events to capture interesting and unplanned-for surface conditions. This dataset includes 576 snowpit events, and describes the snow conditions during the entire expedition.
Please direct inquiries to; David Wagner (PS122/1), Martin Schneebeli (PS122/2), Amy Macfarlane (PS122/3 and PS122/4), Ruzica Dadic (PS122/5).
Related to:
Nicolaus, Marcel; Perovich, Donald K; Spreen, Gunnar; Granskog, Mats A; von Albedyll, Luisa; Angelopoulos, Michael; Anhaus, Philipp; Arndt, Stefanie; Belter, Hans Jakob; Bessonov, Vladimir; Birnbaum, Gerit; Brauchle, Jörg; Calmer, Radiance; Cardellach, Estel; Cheng, Bin; Clemens-Sewall, David; Dadic, Ruzica; Damm, Ellen; de Boer, Gijs; Demir, Oguz; Dethloff, Klaus; Divine, Dmitry V; Fong, Allison A; Fons, Steven W; Frey, Markus M; Fuchs, Niels; Gabarró, Carolina; Gerland, Sebastian; Goessling, Helge; Gradinger, Rolf; Haapala, Jari; Haas, Christian; Hamilton, Jonathan; Hannula, Henna-Reetta; Hendricks, Stefan; Herber, Andreas; Heuzé, Céline; Hoppmann, Mario; Høyland, Knut Vilhelm; Huntemann, Marcus; Hutchings, Jennifer K; Hwang, Byongjun; Itkin, Polona; Jacobi, Hans-Werner; Jaggi, Matthias; Jutila, Arttu; Kaleschke, Lars; Katlein, Christian; Kolabutin, Nikolai; Krampe, Daniela; Kristensen, Steen Savstrup; Krumpen, Thomas; Kurtz, Nathan; Lampert, Astrid; Lange, Benjamin Allen; Lei, Ruibo; Light, Bonnie; Linhardt, Felix; Liston, Glen E; Loose, Brice; Macfarlane, Amy R; Mahmud, Mallik; Matero, Ilkka; Maus, Sönke; Morgenstern, Anne; Naderpour, Reza; Nandan, Vishnu; Niubom, Alexey; Oggier, Marc; Oppelt, Natascha; Pätzold, Falk; Perron, Christophe; Petrovsky, Tomasz; Pirazzini, Roberta; Polashenski, Chris; Rabe, Benjamin; Raphael, Ian; Regnery, Julia; Rex, Markus; Ricker, Robert; Riemann-Campe, Kathrin; Rinke, Annette; Rohde, Jan; Salganik, Evgenii; Scharien, Randall K; Schiller, Martin; Schneebeli, Martin; Semmling, Maximilian; Shimanchuk, Egor; Shupe, Matthew D; Smith, Madison M; Smolyanitsky, Vasily M; Sokolov, Vladimir; Stanton, T; Stroeve, Julienne C; Thielke, Linda; Timofeeva, Anna; Tonboe, Rasmus Tage; Tavri, Aikaterini; Tsamados, Michel; Wagner, David N; Watkins, Daniel; Webster, Melinda; Wendisch, Manfred (2022): Overview of the MOSAiC expedition: Snow and sea ice. 10(1), https://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.2021.000046
Additional metadata:
Instruments associated with each snowpit event
Project(s):
Arctic Research Icebreaker Consortium: A strategy for meeting the needs for marine-based research in the Arctic (ARICE)
Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC)
Funding:
Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven (AWI), grant/award no. AFMOSAiC-1_00: Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate
Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven (AWI), grant/award no. AWI_PS122_00: Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate / MOSAiC
Horizon 2020 (H2020), grant/award no. 730965: Arctic Research Icebreaker Consortium: A strategy for meeting the needs for marine-based research in the Arctic (ARICE)
Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL/FNP), grant/award no. WSL_201812N1678
Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF), grant/award no. 179130: From Cloud to Ground: Snow Accumulation in Extreme Environments
Swiss Polar Institute (SPI), grant/award no. DIRCR-2018-003
Coverage:
Median Latitude: 84.136143 * Median Longitude: 57.590946 * South-bound Latitude: 79.115437 * West-bound Longitude: -2.737144 * North-bound Latitude: 89.152713 * East-bound Longitude: 128.146859
Date/Time Start: 2019-10-25T01:15:00 * Date/Time End: 2020-09-30T09:00:25
Event(s):
PS122/1_4-10 * Latitude: 85.436912 * Longitude: 128.146859 * Date/Time: 2019-10-25T01:15:00 * Sensor URI: sensor.awi.de * Campaign: PS122/1 (MOSAiC20192020) * Basis: Polarstern * Method/Device: Snow pit (SNOWPIT) * Comment: Close to met city
PS122/1_5-5 * Latitude: 85.541385 * Longitude: 126.423526 * Date/Time: 2019-10-28T01:00:00 * Sensor URI: sensor.awi.de * Campaign: PS122/1 (MOSAiC20192020) * Basis: Polarstern * Method/Device: Snow pit (SNOWPIT) * Comment: Close to met city; Slight snowfall, drifting snow, blowing snow
PS122/1_5-28 * Latitude: 85.765642 * Longitude: 123.540397 * Date/Time: 2019-10-31T08:18:00 * Sensor URI: sensor.awi.de * Campaign: PS122/1 (MOSAiC20192020) * Basis: Polarstern * Method/Device: Snow pit (SNOWPIT) * Comment: SMP31; Cc Snowpit: T, Salinity, SWE, SMP31 : at remote sensing site
License:
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY-4.0)
Size:
15 datasets

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Datasets listed in this bundled publication

  1. Macfarlane, AR; Schneebeli, M; Dadic, R et al. (2022): Snowpit metadata TXT files collected during the MOSAiC expedition. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.940106
  2. Macfarlane, AR; Schneebeli, M; Dadic, R et al. (2022): Snowpit surface type observed during the MOSAiC expedition. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.940198
  3. Macfarlane, AR; Schneebeli, M; Dadic, R et al. (2022): Snowpit overview photos collected during the MOSAiC expedition. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.940056
  4. Macfarlane, AR; Schneebeli, M; Dadic, R et al. (2021): Snowpit multi-image photogrammetry images collected during the MOSAiC expedition. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.935932
  5. Macfarlane, AR; Schneebeli, M; Dadic, R et al. (2021): Snowpit GPS locations during the MOSAiC expedition. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.935933
  6. Macfarlane, AR; Schneebeli, M; Dadic, R et al. (2021): Snowpit SnowMicroPen (SMP) force profiles collected during the MOSAiC expedition. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.935554
  7. Macfarlane, AR; Schneebeli, M; Dadic, R et al. (2022): Snowpit near-infrared (NIR) images collected during the MOSAiC expedition. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.940129
  8. Macfarlane, AR; Schneebeli, M; Dadic, R et al. (2022): Snowpit snow water equivalent collected with an ETH tube during the MOSAiC expedition. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.940199
  9. Macfarlane, AR; Schneebeli, M; Dadic, R et al. (2022): Snowpit temperature profiles measured during the MOSAiC expedition. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.940200
  10. Macfarlane, AR; Schneebeli, M; Dadic, R et al. (2022): Snow permittivity measured during the MOSAiC expedition. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.940757
  11. Macfarlane, AR; Schneebeli, M; Dadic, R et al. (2022): Snowpit snow density cutter profiles measured during the MOSAiC expedition. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.940214
  12. Macfarlane, AR; Schneebeli, M; Dadic, R et al. (2022): Snowpit height measurements during the MOSAiC expedition. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.940215
  13. Macfarlane, AR; Schneebeli, M; Dadic, R et al. (2022): Snowpit salinity profiles during the MOSAiC expedition. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.946807
  14. Macfarlane, AR; Schneebeli, M; Dadic, R et al. (2022): Snowpit stable isotope profiles during the MOSAiC expedition. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.952556
  15. Macfarlane, AR; Schneebeli, M; Wagner, DN et al. (2022): MicroCT density and specific surface area snowpit profiles during the MOSAiC expedition. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.952794