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Caution: Data presented on this page are provisional.

2005B

ID Code: 07950
Date:  August 23, 2005 - August 24, 2007
Type: Multiyear ice
Location:  Beaufort Sea
Deployment: Beaufort Gyre - WHOI
Co-located Instruments: Ice-Tethered Profiler

Initial ice thickness:  328 cm

Current Buoy Data:

Click on the data plots below for links to full size plots.



Map of drift track.



Buoy 2005B as seen during
a summer site visit on 9/11/06.


Download data:

2005B_CADIS.xlsx

Data is in EXCEL Data file format with 4 Worksheet Tabs:

Position Worksheet:  Date, Latitude, Longitude

Meteorological Data Worksheet: Date, Air Temperature, Barometric pressure.

Mass Balance Data Worksheet:  Date, Snow Depth, Ice Thickness, Top Surface Position, Bottom of Ice PostionLine.

Temperature Data Worksheet:  Date, Profile of 45 temperatures from Air, through Snow, Sea Ice, and into the Ocean. (Note: Vertical Position indicates depth of thermistor at instalation. Positive Depths indicate distance of thermistor above the ice surface, Negative Depths indicate distance of thermistor below the ice surface.)

To obtain information on the datafiles contact Bruce Elder at Bruce.C.Elder@usace.army.mil.