A Database of Snow on Sea Ice in the Central Arctic Collected during the MOSAiC expedition.

ABSTRACT: Snow plays an essential role in the Arctic as the interface between the sea ice and the atmosphere. Optical properties, thermal conductivity and mass distribution are critical to understanding the complex Arctic sea ice system's energy balance and mass distribution. By conducting measurements from October 2019 to September 2020 on the Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) expedition, we have produced a dataset capturing the year-long evolution of the physical properties of the snow and surface scattering layer, a highly porous surface layer on Arctic sea ice that evolves due to preferential melt at the ice grain boundaries. The dataset includes measurements of snow during MOSAiC. Measurements included profiles of depth, density, temperature, snow w

SUBMITTER: Macfarlane AR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10287691 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature