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SIPEX_II_Snow_Buoys

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Citation
Maksym, T. and Leonard, K. (2016) Snow buoy deployments made during the SIPEX II voyage of the Aurora Australis, 2012, Ver. 1, Australian Antarctic Data Centre - https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/SIPEX_II_Snow_Buoys, Accessed: 2026-05-17
Title
Snow buoy deployments made during the SIPEX II voyage of the Aurora Australis, 2012
Data Centre
Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia
Created Date
2013-03-08
Revision Date
2017-04-26
Expected Date of Data Release
2016-08-26
Data Version
1
Parent record
SIPEX_II

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    Description

    This document describes the deployment of five Ice Mass Balance Buoys (IMBs) and two automatic weather stations. These were primarily deployed on floes 2012103 and 20121029, as well as on helicopter flights (refer to buoy metadata for these).

    IMBs are labelled WHOI-1 to WHOI-6. WHOI-1 was not deployed and WHOI-3 and WHOI-5 failed and were recovered. TAS-2 was exchanged for WHOI-1

    Deployments (successful):
    TAS-2 deployed on helo flight 20 km from ship
    WHOI-4 deployed on helo flight 20 km from ship
    WHOI-6 Deployed next to AWS-1 on ice station 1013 on 11/04
    WHOI-2 Deployed next to AWS-2 on ice station 1029 on 11/01

    Each AWS record air temp, relative humidity, wind speed and direction, total incident short wave, snow depth, GPS position and snow particles near ground level and at about 1m height.
    AWS-1 deployed on 1013
    AWS-2 deployed on 1029

    IMBs record GPS position and temperature in air,snow,ice, and ocean. Sensors also have a heating mode that permit determination of media they are embedded in so that snow and ice thickness can be determined.

    REFER TO MAKSYM LOGBOOK SCANS FOR MORE DETAILS

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    Quality

    WHOI-1 was not deployed due to probably short circuit. WHOI-3 lost sensor chain during deformation event and was recovered. WHOI-5 failed and was recovered and replaced by WHOI-6

    Access

    These data are publicly available for download from the UNAVCO website at the provided URLs. A local copy maintained by the AADC is also available for download.

    Temporal Coverages

    Spatial Coverages

    Latitude

    Northernmost:
    -64.4
    Southernmost:
    -64.7

    Longitude

    Westernmost:
    116.4
    Easternmost:
    120.1

    Science Keywords

    Additional Keywords

    • SIPEX
    • Ice Mass Balance Buoy
    • IMB

    Locations

    • CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA
    • OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN
    • GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR

    Platforms

    • R/V Aurora Australis
    • HELICOPTER

    Instruments

    • Automated Weather System

    Researchers

    • maksym, ted (INVESTIGATOR,TECHNICAL CONTACT,DIF AUTHOR)
    • leonard, katherine (INVESTIGATOR,TECHNICAL CONTACT)

    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_Snow_Buoys when using these data.

    Project

      ISO Topic

      • CLIMATOLOGY/METEOROLOGY/ATMOSPHERE
      • OCEANS

      Dataset Language

      • ENGLISH

      Orignating Centre

      • Australian Antarctic Division

      Dataset Progress

      • COMPLETE

      IDN Node

      • AMD
      • AMD/AU
      • CEOS
      • ACE/CRC

      Metadata Revision History

        2013-03-08 - record created by Dave Connell from a template completed by Ted Maksym. 2016-08-26 - record updated by Dave Connell to link the data.

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