In Situ Sea Ice Optical Properties and Validation Data

Data and code supporting a 2021 Cryosphere Journal paper on a novel diffuse reflectance probe. The dataset includes vertical profiles of temperature, salinity, and spatially resolved diffuse reflectance from two Arctic sampling sites, alongside Monte Carlo simulation results and validation data from microsphere solutions. Christophe Perron from the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique authored the work.

Use Cases

• Validating Monte Carlo simulations of light transport based on scattering coefficient and source-detector distance data.
• Analyzing vertical profiles of sea ice temperature and bulk salinity from two distinct Arctic sites.
• Comparing measured inherent optical properties against theoretical values using the microsphere solution validation data.
• Assessing the impact of sunlight shading on reflectance measurements using data from different cover types.

Strengths

• Includes raw measurement data alongside the simulation and validation codes used in the published study.
• Contains vertical profile data from two distinct sea ice sites, one snow-covered and one bare.
• Data is provided in both .xlsx and .mat formats for accessibility.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred from the description after download.
• Row count and overall dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

Collection Method

In situ measurements collected using a custom diffuse reflectance probe, supplemented by Monte Carlo simulations and laboratory validation with microsphere solutions.

Geography

Two sea ice sampling sites in the Arctic (referred to as sites 1 and 4).