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 (2022): Snowpit surface type observed during the MOSAiC expedition [dataset]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.940198, In: Macfarlane, AR et al. (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:
For the majority of snowpits the snow surface type was recorded by the observer. The documented surface types include; new snow, rime, surface hoar, glazed, drifted snow, wet, visible dust, frost flowers, surface crust, surface scattering layer, jewel snow, frozen.
Please direct inquiries to; David Wagner (PS122/1), Martin Schneebeli (PS122/2), Amy Macfarlane (PS122/3 and PS122/4), Ruzica Dadic (PS122/5).
Project(s):
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
Coverage:
Median Latitude: 85.966713 * Median Longitude: 59.358259 * South-bound Latitude: 79.187972 * West-bound Longitude: -2.590231 * North-bound Latitude: 89.143160 * East-bound Longitude: 120.655560
Date/Time Start: 2020-01-09T06:45:00 * Date/Time End: 2020-09-30T08:13:24
Event(s):
PS122/2_19-75 * Latitude: 87.147502 * Longitude: 114.178455 * Date/Time: 2020-01-09T06:45:00 * Sensor URI: sensor.awi.de * Location: Arctic Ocean * Campaign: PS122/2 (MOSAiC20192020) * Basis: Polarstern * Method/Device: Snow pit (SNOWPIT) * Comment: close to coring
PS122/2_19-92 * Latitude: 87.154970 * Longitude: 113.903720 * Date/Time: 2020-01-10T06:40:00 * Sensor URI: sensor.awi.de * Location: Arctic Ocean * Campaign: PS122/2 (MOSAiC20192020) * Basis: Polarstern * Method/Device: Snow pit (SNOWPIT)
PS122/2_19-128 * Latitude: 87.147410 * Longitude: 114.177197 * Date/Time: 2020-01-09T11:02:00 * Sensor URI: sensor.awi.de * Location: Arctic Ocean * Campaign: PS122/2 (MOSAiC20192020) * Basis: Polarstern * Method/Device: Snow pit (SNOWPIT) * Comment: dune, gestört
License:
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY-4.0)
Status:
Curation Level: Basic curation (CurationLevelB) * Processing Level: PANGAEA data processing level 1 (ProcLevel1)
Size:
31.4 kBytes