2012 deployments of five Ice Mass Balance Buoys and two automatic weather stations during the SIPEX II voyage of the Aurora Australis. The buoys and stations were deployed on specific ice floes and helicopter flights, primarily on floes 2012103 and 20121029. The data was collected by the organization AU_AADC.
Use Cases
- Calculate snow and ice thickness based on sensor heating mode data mentioned in the description
- Analyze meteorological conditions based on AWS records of air temperature, humidity, wind, and radiation
- Track sea ice floe movement and deformation based on GPS position data from buoys and stations
- Model heat transfer through the ice column based on temperature profiles in air, snow, ice, and ocean
Strengths
- Includes data from five specific buoy deployments and two automatic weather stations
- Records multiple environmental variables: GPS position, temperature profiles, air temperature, humidity, wind, radiation, and snow depth
Limitations
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
- Last updated 2012-10-29 23:59:59.999000; freshness should be verified
Provenance
- Source
- AU_AADC
- Collection Method
- Deployed during the SIPEX II voyage of the Aurora Australis.
- Time Range
- 2012
- Geography
- Antarctic sea ice, primarily on floes 2012103 and 20121029.