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2006D

ID Code: 25776
Date:  August 30, 2006 - December 11, 2007
Type: First Year Ice
Initial Location:  Laptev Sea
Deployment: DAMOCLES
, IABP

Co-located Instruments: Polar Ocean Profiler
                                   System, Sound Source

Initial ice thickness:  109 cm



     Above - Time series of ice mass balance and temperature. The top panel is barometric pressure, the second is air temperature, and the bottom panel upper ocean temperature. The middle panel displays the internal ice temperature using color contours, with blue being cold and red warm. The gray shaded area represents snow depth, black areas are missing data, the dark blue represents the ocean.


 

Map of drift track.

Photograph of Ice Station 2 site,
Buoy 2006D


Download data:

2006D.xls

Date 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.