1. Australian Antarctic Data Centre
2. Discover and Manage Data
3. Records
4. SIPEX_II_ASPECT

Description

This dataset contains observations of ice conditions taken from the bridge of the RV Aurora Australis during SIPEX 2012, following the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research/CliC Antarctic Sea Ice Processes and Climate [ASPeCt] protocols. See aspect.antarctica.gov.au

Observations include total and partial concentration, ice type, thickness, floe size, topography, and snow cover in each of three primary ice categories; open water characteristics, and weather summary.

The dataset is comprised of the scanned pages of a single logbook, which holds hourly observations taken by observers while the ship was moving through sea-ice zone.

The following persons assisted in the collection of these data:
Dr R. Massom, AAD, Member of observation team
Mr A. Steer, AAD, Member of observation team
Prof S. Warren, UW(Seattle), USA, Member of observation team
Dr J. Hutchings, IARC, UAF, USA, Member of observation team
Dr T. Toyota, Inst Low Temp Science, Japan, Member of observation team
Dr T. Tamura, NIPR, Japan, Member of EM observation team
Dr G. Dieckmann, AWI, Germany, Member of observation team
Dr E. Maksym, WHOI, USA, Member of observation team
Mr R. Stevens, IMAS, Trainee on observation team
Dr J. Melbourne-Thomas, ACE CRC, Trainee on observation team
Dr A. Giles, ACE CRC, Trainee on observation team
Ms M. Zhia, IMAS, Trainee on observation team
Ms J. Jansens, IMAS, Trainee on observation team
Mr R. Humphries, Univ Wollengong, Trainee on observation team
Mr C. Sampson, Univ Utah, USA, Trainee on observation team
Mr Olivier Lecomte, Univ Catholique, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, Trainee on observation team
Mr D. Lubbers, Univ Utah, USA, Trainee on observation team
Ms M. Zatko, UW(Seattle), USA, Trainee on observation team
Ms C. Gionfriddo, Uni Melbourne, Trainee on observation team
Mr K. Nakata, EES, Japan, Trainee on observation team

Quality

The observation location sometimes could not be occupied due to requirements by the ship's crew or the presence of fellow expeditioners.

Ship movement between SIPEX 2012 stations was often not sufficient for hourly observations to be conducted as the required minimum separation from the previous observation point was not achieved.

Access

These data are publicly available for download from two provided URLs. Users are encouraged to use the link to the Icebox site and download the data from there (scroll down and access the "cruise" data).

Temporal Coverages

• Start date: 2012-09-22 - Stop date: 2012-11-11

Spatial Coverages

Science Keywords

• EARTH SCIENCE > CRYOSPHERE > SEA ICE
• EARTH SCIENCE > CRYOSPHERE > SEA ICE > ICE DEPTH/THICKNESS
• EARTH SCIENCE > CRYOSPHERE > SEA ICE > ICE FLOES
• EARTH SCIENCE > CRYOSPHERE > SEA ICE > ICE ROUGHNESS
• EARTH SCIENCE > CRYOSPHERE > SEA ICE > ICE TYPES
• EARTH SCIENCE > CRYOSPHERE > SEA ICE > SEA ICE CONCENTRATION
• EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SEA ICE
• EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SEA ICE > ICE DEPTH/THICKNESS
• EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SEA ICE > ICE FLOES
• EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SEA ICE > ICE ROUGHNESS
• EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SEA ICE > ICE TYPES
• EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SEA ICE > SEA ICE CONCENTRATION
• EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > SURFACE TEMPERATURE > AIR TEMPERATURE
• EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > CLOUDS > CLOUD PROPERTIES > CLOUD FREQUENCY
• EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE > SEA LEVEL PRESSURE

Use Constraints

This data set conforms to the CCBY Attribution License
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

Please follow instructions listed in the citation reference provided at http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/metadata/citation.cfm?entry_id=SIPEX_II_ASPECT when using these data.