PANGAEA_995128
Snow and ice surface temperatures measured during RV POLARSTERN cruise PS149
Rückert, Janna Elisabeth; Brechtelsbauer, Stefanie; Bühler, Linnu; Walbröl, Andreas
Snow and ice surface temperatures measured during RV POLARSTERN cruise PS149
2026-05-29
PANGAEA
Dataset
https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.995128
Investigator
Janna Elisabeth
Rückert
janna.rueckert@uni-bremen.de
Earth Science
Event label
DATE/TIME
LATITUDE
LONGITUDE
Location
Station label
Time in days
Height, relative, from ice/snow interface
Snow+surface scattering layer, height
Temperature, air
Temperature, ice/snow
Surface temperature
Measurement comment
Measurement identification
Snow depth
Comment
Observer
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_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 temperature
Surface Temperature
Ruler stick
Digital thermometer
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
Leobener Str.
Bremen
Bremen
28359
Germany
online
4745 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 snow and ice surface temperatures were measured using a waterproof thermometer with a needle probe during 29 ice stations. A ruler was used to determine the measuring height. In snow pits, snow and surface scattering layer (SSL) could be distinguished, thus, in the "Height, relative, from ice/snow interface [cm]" column, 0 cm indicates the snow-ice interface. These measurements included the surface and the snow-ice interface temperature. Additional temperature measurements were taken at 2 cm spacing within the snow and SSL, and at 5 cm and 2 m height above the surface. For the snow pits the total "Snow depth [m]" is also given. Apart from snow pit temperature measurements, the snow /SSL was sampled within a small (2-4 m) radius around the snow pit. Here, a ruler was used to determine the height, but a clear distinction between snow and SSL was not done or was not possible and because the SSL could potentially be penetrated by a ruler, it is a combined measurement. Thus, these measurements were taken at the "Snow+surface scattering layer, height [m]". The "Measurement_ID" column is counting the measurements per Event and is of the form n_k where n is a number for the specific vertical profile that was sampled and k indicates the measurement number at that profile.
Whether a measurement was taken within the snow or at the surface is denoted by the "Measurement comment". Note that due to the indistinguishability between snow, SSL and ice mentioned above, in this column, SSL/ice is used to indicate measurements that were either taken at the ice-SSL interface or within the SSL.
All 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.995128"!
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
2026-05-29
2026-05-29