10.1594/PANGAEA.973375Preußer, AndreasAndreasPreußer0000-0003-0134-6890Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, BremerhavenNicolaus, MarcelMarcelNicolaus0000-0003-0903-1746Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, BremerhavenHoppmann, MarioMarioHoppmann0000-0003-1294-9531Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, BremerhavenPANGAEA2025Arctic PASSIONAutonomous buoyIce mass balanceSea ice interfacesSea ice thicknesssnow depthTemperature thermistorDATE/TIMELATITUDELONGITUDESea ice thicknessSnow thicknessSea ice thickness, uncertaintySnow thickness, uncertaintyDistance, atmosphere/snow interface, relative to initial ice surfaceTemperature, atmosphere/snow interfaceThermistor number, at atmosphere/snow interfaceDistance, snow/ice interface, relative to initial ice surfaceTemperature, snow/ice interfaceThermistor number, at snow/ice interfaceDistance, ice/ocean interface, relative to initial ice surfaceTemperature, ice/ocean interfaceThermistor number, at ice/ocean interfaceSAMS Ice Mass Balance buoyManual classificationCurrent sea ice maps for Arctic and Antarctic (meereisportal.de)Pan-Arctic observing System of Systems: Implementing Observations for societal Needs (Arctic_PASSION)Physical Oceanography @ AWI (AWI_PhyOce)Sea Ice Physics @ AWI (AWI_SeaIce)Preusser, AndreasAndreasPreusser2018-09-12T01:00:13/2019-09-06T01:00:14Dataset10.1594/PANGAEA.97319310.1594/PANGAEA.96790710.1175/jtech-d-13-00058.1https://data.meereisportal.de/relaunch/buoy.php?lang=en&active-tab1=method&active-tab2=buoy&buoyname=2018T53&singlemap=13947 data pointstext/tab-separated-valuesCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 InternationalThe Snow and Ice Mass Balance Array (SIMBA) is a thermistor string type IMB (Jackson et al., 2013) which measures the environmental temperature SIMBA-ET and a temperature change around the thermistors after a weak heating is applied to each sensor (SIMBA-HT). SIMBA 2018T53 (a.k.a. FMI_0503) is an autonomous instrument that was installed on drifting sea ice in the Arctic Ocean (Fedorov Transdrift XXIV (TICE) in 2018) as part of the project FMI. Its thermistor chain is 5 m long, and equipped with 241 thermistors (Maxim Integrated DS28EA00) at a spacing of 2 cm. Based on a manual classification method, the SIMBA-ET and SIMBA-HT were processed to obtain snow depth and ice thickness (smoothed with a 3-day running mean), as well as the thermistor number, the vertical position Z relative to the snow-ice interface and the measured SIMBA-ET at each detected interface (atmosphere-snow, snow-ice and ice-ocean) for the period between 2018-09-12T01:00:13 and 2019-09-06T01:00:14. To do this, we combined two derivatives of measured temperatures (the ET vertical gradient and HT rise ratio) to reduce the detection uncertainty of all interfaces considered. The snow or ice surface, consequentially the snow depth, is determined by the ET vertical gradient. Potential formation of snow ice is not explicitly considered in this data set, but may occur as depicted by vertical changes of the snow-ice interface position. The ice-ocean interface is usually determined using the HT rise ratio and serves as the lower limit for ice thickness. Overall, the accumulated error is 2 to 4 times the sensor spacing for both the snow depth and ice thickness. For interface temperatures, individual sensors in the chain measure with a temperature resolution of 0.0625°C, with the overall accuracy landing in the range of ± 2°C (Jackson et al., 2013). After the snow cover has melted, negative values for snow depth may indicate the onset of ice surface melt.0.7985-0.3740000000000236580.374489.8365Arctic OceanHorizon 2020https://doi.org/10.13039/501100007601101003472Pan-Arctic observing System of Systems: Implementing Observations for societal Needs (Arctic PASSION)