Last updated
November 5, 2025
Terms of use
Open use. Must provide the source.

Description

Data of snow and sea ice in the McMurdo Sound, October-December 2022. The data was collected as part of the New Zealand Marsden Fund Research Grant 21-VUW-103 "Can Snow Change the Fate of Antarctic Sea Ice?"

The dataset includes raw data of the manual snow and sea ice measurements from snow pits and ice cores (temperature, density, salinity, dO18), measurements of snow water equivalent (SWE), spatial information of snow height (MagnaProbe) and sea ice thickness (EM-31), AWS (air temperature, wind speed, wind direction, relative humidity, pressure), radiations stations (shortwave, longwave, thermal IR, spectral shortwave), differential GPS data (3 fixed stations on different sea ice thicknesses, + 1 rover station for georeferencing UAV measurements), SIMBA buoy temperature (+heated temperature) data (3 buoys during November, 1 buoy for 15 months), UAV data: RGB, thermal IR, broadband albedo, spectral albedo, Chlorophyll-a from ice cores (bottom 10 cm), NIR reflectivity data of snow at 850 nm, and 940 nm (snow surface, profile, ice surface), photographs (1. overview of field sites, 2. for Structure from Motion for surface roughness, 3. macrophotos of snow) surface impurity concentrations, microCT data of snow microstructure, Denoth probe (density) and InfraSnow (specific surface area - SSA).

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Additional information

Identifier
75532410-dca7-49a0-813c-274b2b51fa05@envidat
Issued date
January 24, 2025
Modified date
November 5, 2025
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EnviDat
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https://www.envidat.ch/#/metadata/snow-on-antarctic-sea-ice-in-mcmurdo-sound-2022
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