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2009D

ID Code: 09115
Date:  April 27, 2009 - May 31, 2009
Type: Multiyear ice
Initial Location:  Central Arctic
Deployment: GREENARC
Installation Notes: Faulty air temperature sensor

Initial ice thickness: 342 cm
Initial snow depth: 24 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.



Current map of drift track.
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Buoy instalation at GREENARC


Download data:

2009D.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.