Cheng, Bin; Nicolaus, Marcel; Cheng, Yubing (2023): Snow depth and sea ice thickness derived from a SIMBA buoy (FMI02) during 2012/2013 [dataset]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.961767, In: Cheng, B et al. (2023): Snow depth and sea ice thickness derived from the FMI02 SIMBA buoy's environmental temperature (SIMBA_ET) measurements [dataset bundled publication]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.961763
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Abstract:
The Snow and Ice Mass Balance Array (SIMBA) is a thermistor string type IMB (Jackson et al., 2013) that measures the environment temperature SIMBA-ET and temperature change (SIMBA-HT) after an identical heating element is applied to each sensor. This SIMBA (FMI02) was deployed in the high Arctic during the Polarstern Arctic cruise (ARK-XXVII/3) on 22, September 2012. The SIMBA thermistor chain is 4.8 m long and equipped with 240 thermistors at 0.02 m spacing. Snow depth and ice thickness were derived manually by investigating the SIMBA_ET vertical temperature profiles. This SIMBA was deployed on 22 Sep 2012 at 15:15 UTC. The initial position was Latitude: 88.81287 N Longitude: 57.53883 E. The initial ice thickness was 1.44 m; Freeboard was 0.21 m and the snow depth was 0.03 m.
This dataset provides snow depth and ice thickness derived from temperature data. The snow depth values mean snow accumulation above the reference surface (zero). The ice thickness values mean ice thickness growth below the initial reference surface (zero).
Related to:
Batrak, Yurii; Cheng, Bin; Kallio-Myers, Viivi (in review): Sea ice cover in the Copernicus Arctic Regional Reanalysis. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-2023-74
References:
Jackson, Keith; Wilkinson, Jeremy; Maksym, Ted; Meldrum, David T; Beckers, Justin; Haas, Christian; Mackenzie, David (2013): A Novel and Low-Cost Sea Ice Mass Balance Buoy. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 30(11), 2676-2688, https://doi.org/10.1175/jtech-d-13-00058.1
Funding:
Horizon 2020 (H2020), grant/award no. 101003590: Modelling the Polar regions in a global context (PolarRES)
Coverage:
Median Latitude: -2.316031 * Median Longitude: 86.578998 * South-bound Latitude: -38.153400 * West-bound Longitude: 83.428400 * North-bound Latitude: 59.969500 * East-bound Longitude: 88.797100
Date/Time Start: 2012-09-23T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 2013-06-05T00:00:00
Minimum Elevation: -4374.5 m * Maximum Elevation: -4373.5 m
Event(s):
PS80/360-1 (Ice station #8) * Latitude Start: 88.827670 * Longitude Start: 58.863500 * Latitude End: 88.742170 * Longitude End: 55.102670 * Date/Time Start: 2012-09-22T05:24:00 * Date/Time End: 2012-09-23T22:10:00 * Elevation Start: -4373.5 m * Elevation End: -4374.5 m * Location: Arctic Ocean * Campaign: ARK-XXVII/3 (PS80 IceArc) * Basis: Polarstern * Method/Device: Ice station (ICE) * Comment: Position sensor: Ship's GPS
Parameter(s):
| # | Name | Short Name | Unit | Principal Investigator | Method/Device | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | DATE/TIME | Date/Time | Cheng, Bin | Geocode | ||
| 2 | LATITUDE | Latitude | Cheng, Bin | Geocode | ||
| 3 | LONGITUDE | Longitude | Cheng, Bin | Geocode | ||
| 4 | Snow thickness | Snow thick | m | Cheng, Bin | ||
| 5 | Sea ice thickness | EsEs | m | Cheng, Bin |
License:
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY-4.0)
Status:
Curation Level: Enhanced curation (CurationLevelC)
Size:
104 data points