Drift trajectories of the main sites of the Distributed Network of MOSAiC 2019/2020

During the “Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC)” in 2019/2020 a Distributed Network (DN) of autonomous stations (buoys) was installed on the sea ice and drifted across the Arctic Ocean. This network consisted of >200 individual devices ranging from simple position buoys to complex and interdisciplinary multi-sensor platforms. Most (complex) measurements were performed on sea ice floes (sites or nodes) by co-located instruments. These sites were called medium (M) and large (L) sites. In addition, autonomous instruments were operated in the Central Observatory (CO), which consisted of the research ice breaker Polarstern and the adjacent ice camp. Initially, 4 L and 9 M sites were installed around the CO in a distance of up to 40 km. However, their distances and relative positions changed over time due to the drift of the ice pack over time. Over the course of the MOSAiC expedition, 3 different COs were established because of re-locations of RV Polarstern: CO1 started with the first drift of Polarstern on 04 October 2019; CO2 started with the second drift on 19 June 2020; and CO3 started with the third drift on 21 August 2020.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.937204
PID https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.ab5c6bb2-de5a-4244-87b8-d54ab728bdfa
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.2021.000046
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.937204
Provenance
Creator Nicolaus, Marcel ORCID logo; Riemann-Campe, Kathrin ORCID logo; Bliss, Angela; Hutchings, Jennifer K; Granskog, Mats A ORCID logo; Haas, Christian ORCID logo; Hoppmann, Mario ORCID logo; Kanzow, Torsten ORCID logo; Krishfield, Richard A; Lei, Ruibo ORCID logo; Rex, Markus ORCID logo; Li, Tao ORCID logo; Rabe, Benjamin ORCID logo
Publisher PANGAEA
Contributor Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven
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
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Representation
Resource Type Publication Series of Datasets; Collection
Format application/zip
Size 15 datasets
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (-41.241W, 60.810S, 139.568E, 89.596N); Arctic Ocean; North Greenland Sea
Temporal Coverage Begin 2019-10-04T12:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2021-06-03T05:00:00Z