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Caution: Data presented on this page are provisional.

2008F

ID Code: 29557
Date:  August 8, 2008 - January 6, 2009
Type: Multiyear ice
Initial Location:  Beaufort Sea
Deployment: Beaufort Gyre - WHOI
Co-located Instruments: Ice Tethered Profiler, Arctic Ocean Fulx Buoy, SAMS Buoy

Initial ice thickness: 355 cm
Initial snow depth: 4 cm

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



Map of drift track.



Buoy installed in Beaufort Sea.

Download data:

2008F_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.)