Magnaprobe snow and melt pond depth measurements from the 2019-2020 MOSAiC expedition

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At MOSAiC, we collected snow depths by Magnaprobe - an automated snow depth probe, throughout the seasons, most often alongside electromagnetic measurements for deriving total thickness. Most of the data were collected routinely along established transect lines and loops to create timeseries. Some data were collected opportunistically e.g., during 'events'. In addition, several repeated ridge transects were established. During the melt season (June – September 2020), the Magnaprobe was used to measure snow depth, surface scatter layer depth and melt pond depth. This repository includes data obtained by Magnaprobe, sea ice thickness derived by subtracting snow depth from co-located total thickness measurements, a descriptive document including maps (Magnaprobe Repository Description), and a table of with other transect-mode measurements at MOSAiC (Action Log Table): remote sensing instruments, snow structure measurements etc.

All files are text files. Most of the files are data files. Some files are meta files (descriptive text).The data files are comma separated value values. Depending on the processing level they may have a header.The data structure in this repository is organized in the following manner:1. All data are sorted into folders by 'scientific activity' number.2. Raw data have the file-naming structure: magnaprobe-transect-date-activity_raw.dat (for example: magnaprobe-transect-20191024-PS122-1_4-1_raw.csv).3. Level 1 data have the file-naming structure: magnaprobe-transect-date-activity-_location.csv. All possible locations are listed in the paragraph below.4. Level 2 location data have same filenames as the Level 1 data, but with added suffixes:a. -track.csv: track with geographic coordinatesb. -track-icecs-yx.csv: track with added local coordinatesc. -track-icesc-xy_corr.csv: track with local coordinates shifted to better correspond the local coordinates of GEM-25. Level 3 data have the file-naming structure: magna+gem2-transect-activity_location.csv.6. In addition, some folders contain text files with activity descriptions. For legs 4-5 there are point-wise comments in the last column of the level 1 data.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.937781
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.937781
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Creator Itkin, Polona ORCID logo; Webster, Melinda ORCID logo; Hendricks, Stefan ORCID logo; Oggier, Marc ORCID logo; Jaggi, Matthias; Ricker, Robert ORCID logo; Arndt, Stefanie ORCID logo; Divine, Dmitry V ORCID logo; von Albedyll, Luisa ORCID logo; Raphael, Ian ORCID logo; Rohde, Jan; Liston, Glen E
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2021
Funding Reference Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven https://doi.org/10.13039/501100003207 Crossref Funder ID AFMOSAiC-1_00 Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate; Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven https://doi.org/10.13039/501100003207 Crossref Funder ID AWI_PS122_00 Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate / MOSAiC; German Research Foundation https://doi.org/10.13039/501100001659 Crossref Funder ID 404680418 https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/404680418 Der Einfluss von gegensätzlichen Schnee-Charakteristika auf die Entwicklung des Meereises; German Research Foundation https://doi.org/10.13039/501100001659 Crossref Funder ID 5472008 https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/5472008 Priority Programme 1158 Antarctic Research with Comparable Investigations in Arctic Sea Ice Areas; Horizon 2020 https://doi.org/10.13039/501100007601 Crossref Funder ID 730965 doi:10.3030/730965 Arctic Research Icebreaker Consortium: A strategy for meeting the needs for marine-based research in the Arctic (ARICE); National Aeronautics and Space Administration https://doi.org/10.13039/100000104 Crossref Funder ID 80NSSC20K0658 Assessing and improving the seasonal capability of ICESat-2 data for sea ice research; National Science Foundation https://doi.org/10.13039/100000001 Crossref Funder ID 1735862 https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1735862 Chemical, Physical and Biological processes linking snow and sea ice to the Arctic Ocean mixed layer: Improving models through the MOSAiC platform; National Science Foundation https://doi.org/10.13039/100000001 Crossref Funder ID 1820927 https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1820927 Parameterizing sub-grid Arctic snow-on-sea-ice processes in Earth System Models using MOSAiC field observations and realistic-resolution process models; The Research Council of Norway https://doi.org/10.13039/501100005416 Crossref Funder ID 287871 https://prosjektbanken.forskningsradet.no/en/project/FORISS/287871 Sea Ice Deformation and Snow for an Arctic in Transition (SIDRiFT)
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Resource Type Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 12 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (-2.691W, 79.365S, 129.248E, 89.141N); Arctic Ocean
Temporal Coverage Begin 2019-10-24T05:18:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2020-09-30T09:41:00Z