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Krumpen, Thomas; Haas, Christian; Hendricks, Stefan (2024): Laser altimeter data obtained over sea-ice during the SORPIC campaign in May, 2010 [dataset publication series]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.970992

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Abstract:
Sea ice surface roughness data were obtained during the SORPIC campaign in May, 2010 with a Single Beam Laser Altimeter (SBLA) mounted inside an electromagnetic system (EM-Bird) towed at 10-30 m height above surface by an Airplane (Basler BT-67, Polar-5). A method developed by Hibler (1972) was used to a) isolate the surface profile from low-frequency variations associated with the aircraft motion and b) to identify pressure ridge sails. The processing steps are described in https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/56364/. We applied a ridge detection threshold of 0.6 m, which means that only sails higher 0.6 m are detected. Version and name of the processing routine: Laser_Altimeter_Processing_VS5_06_20.py (vers.5, Feb 22, 2024, https://gitlab.awi.de/sitem/sbla_processing.git). SBLA records (RIEGL - LD90) are provided at a sampling rate of 100 Hz. Sensor accuracy is 5 cm with a beam diameter at surface of 5.8 cm. This dataset includes recorded altimeter readings, the derived surface elevation and width/height/spacing of detected pressure ridge sails. Note on data quality: 5.8 cm .
Keyword(s):
Laser Altimeter; Ridge Height; Ridge Spacing; Ridge Width; Sea Ice Surface Roughness
Supplement to:
Krumpen, Thomas; von Albedyll, Luisa; Bünger, Hans Jakob; Castellani, Giulia; Hartmann, Jörg; Helm, Veit; Hendricks, Stefan; Hutter, Nils; Landy, Jack; Lisovski, Simeon; Lüpkes, Christof; Rohde, Jan; Suhrhoff, Mira; Haas, Christian (in review): Smoother ice in a more dynamic Arctic: 30 years of airborne pressure ridge observations. Nature Climate Change
Related to:
Ehrlich, André; Gehrmann, Martin; Nehring, Franziska (2011): Documentation of Polar 5 campaign SoRPIC. hdl:10013/epic.38808.d001
Data processing report:
Suhrhoff, Mira (2021): Sea Ice Surface Roughness from Single Beam Laser Altimeter Measurements - Method Development and Comparison with Airborne Laser Scanner Profiles [thesis]. Universität Trier, hdl:10013/epic.30c63deb-b1f5-4c1e-927b-3d8a8d495b82
Coverage:
Median Latitude: 82.147718 * Median Longitude: -3.322235 * South-bound Latitude: 81.970664 * West-bound Longitude: -5.279633 * North-bound Latitude: 82.332566 * East-bound Longitude: -0.740435
Date/Time Start: 2010-05-14T08:16:55 * Date/Time End: 2010-05-14T08:46:45
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