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2007B

ID Code: 30106
Date:  April 9, 2007- August 25, 2007
Type: Multiyear ice
Initial Location:  Beaufort Sea
Deployment: SEDNA
Co-located Instruments: Ice Stress Buoys

Initial ice thickness: 269 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.

Buoy installed at SEDNA


Download data:

2007B.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.