PANGAEA_995110
Snow and surface scattering layer height measurements during RV POLARSTERN cruise PS149
Rückert, Janna Elisabeth; Brechtelsbauer, Stefanie; Bühler, Linnu; Walbröl, Andreas
Snow and surface scattering layer height measurements during RV POLARSTERN cruise PS149
2026-05-21
PANGAEA
Dataset
https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.995110
Investigator
Janna Elisabeth
Rückert
janna.rueckert@uni-bremen.de
Earth Science
Event label
DATE/TIME
LATITUDE
LONGITUDE
Location
Snow depth
Surface scattering layer, height
Snow+surface scattering layer, height
Observer
Comment
Station label
Time in days
geoscientificInformation
Arctic
CTD/Rosette
Hand net
Ice station
Ice Station 1a
Ice Station 1b
Ice Station 1c
Ice Station 2a
Ice Station 2b
Ice Station 2c
Ice Station 2d
Ice Station 3a
Ice Station 3b
Ice Station 3c
Ice Station 3d
Multiple opening/closing net
PS149
PS149_13-1
PS149_13-2
PS149_13-3
PS149_16-1
PS149_16-2
PS149_16-3
PS149_18-1
PS149_18-2
PS149_18-3
PS149_21-1
PS149_21-2
PS149_21-3
PS149_25-1
PS149_25-2
PS149_25-3
PS149_30-1
PS149_30-2
PS149_30-3
PS149_32-1
PS149_32-2
PS149_36-1
PS149_36-2
PS149_36-3
PS149_41-1
PS149_41-2
PS149_41-3
PS149_46-1
PS149_46-2
PS149_47-1
PS149_47-2
Sea ice
snow
snow depth
Ruler stick
Polarstern
2025-07-09
2025-08-27
Complete
82.41135
84.94432
-17.9022
33.9981
AC3
Arctic Amplification
unrestricted
CC-BY-4.0: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
English
PANGAEA
Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science
https://www.pangaea.de/
Data Center Contact
Michael
Diepenbroek
info@pangaea.de
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Bremen
Bremen
28359
Germany
online
1113 data points
text/tab-separated-values
Bühler, Linnu; Rückert, Janna Elisabeth; Walbröl, Andreas; Mech, Mario; Krobot, Pavel; Ebell, Kerstin; Schnitt, Sabrina; Spreen, Gunnar (2026): Water vapor, mixed-phase clouds, precipitation and sea ice emissivity over the Central Arctic Ocean (VAMPIRE-2): remote sensing and in-situ measurements suite during POLARSTERN cruise PS149 (CONTRASTS) [dataset bibliography]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.990497
Nicolaus, Marcel (2026): The Expedition PS149 of the Research Vessel POLARSTERN to the Arctic Ocean in 2025. Berichte zur Polar- und Meeresforschung = Reports on Polar and Marine Research, 808, 382 pp, https://doi.org/10.57738/BZPM_0808_2026
During the Polarstern cruise PS149 from July 2025 to August 2025 in the Atlantic part of the Arctic a regular foldable wooden ruler was used to measure the height of the snow and the surface scattering layer during 30 ice stations. A clear distinction between snow and SSL was not done or was not possible (except for the snow pit measurements, indicated by the Location column) and because the SSL could potentially be penetrated by the ruler, it is a combined measurement. Thus, these measurements were taken at the "Snow+surface scattering layer, height [cm]" where 0 cm is either the ice-SSL interface, an interface within the SSL or the snow-SSL interface. Measurements (except during ice station with label PS149_30-1) were done within the vicinity of the footprint of the onboard microwave radiometers installed for the VAMPIRE project (https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.990497) (that is, in about 25 m distance to the port bow of Polarstern), further refined in the "Location" column. The ice stations lasted two to three days (day at station is included in the dataset), and the floes (named '1', '2', and '3') were revisited. The "Station label" contained in the dataset gives the number of the visit (indicated by 'a','b', 'c', and 'd') and the floe name (e.g., '2a' refers to the the first visit of floe 2). For more information about these measurements the user is referred to Chapter 3 of the cruise report. ** For all details see the full metadata description at "https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.995110"!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_6709
LATITUDE
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_6709
LONGITUDE
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601
DATE/TIME
https://doi.org/10.17815/jlsrf-3-163
Polarstern
https://doi.org/10.57738/BZPM_0808_2026
The Expedition PS149 of the Research Vessel POLARSTERN to the Arctic Ocean in 2025
https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.990497
Water vapor, mixed-phase clouds, precipitation and sea ice emissivity over the Central Arctic Ocean (VAMPIRE-2): remote sensing and in-situ measurements suite during POLARSTERN cruise PS149 (CONTRASTS)
https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/268020496
AC3
DIF
9.4
2026-05-21
2026-05-28