Journal article
A dataset of direct observations of sea ice drift and waves in ice
J Rabault, M Müller, J Voermans, D Brazhnikov, I Turnbull, A Marchenko, M Biuw, T Nose, T Waseda, M Johansson, Ø Breivik, G Sutherland, LR Hole, M Johnson, A Jensen, O Gundersen, Y Kristoffersen, A Babanin, P Tedesco, KH Christensen Show all
Scientific Data | Published : 2023
Abstract
Variability in sea ice conditions, combined with strong couplings to the atmosphere and the ocean, lead to a broad range of complex sea ice dynamics. More in-situ measurements are needed to better identify the phenomena and mechanisms that govern sea ice growth, drift, and breakup. To this end, we have gathered a dataset of in-situ observations of sea ice drift and waves in ice. A total of 15 deployments were performed over a period of 5 years in both the Arctic and Antarctic, involving 72 instruments. These provide both GPS drift tracks, and measurements of waves in ice. The data can, in turn, be used for tuning sea ice drift models, investigating waves damping by sea ice, and helping calib..
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Funding Acknowledgements
This work was partly funded through the following projects and funding agencies: the Norwegian Research Council, the Norwegian Polar Institute, and the Norwegian Meteorological Institute through the following projects: Dynamics Of Floating Ice (DOFI, grant number 280625), Arven Etter Nansen (AeN, 276730), Machine Ocean (303411), FOCUS (301450), CIRFA (237906). JV and AB were supported by the Australian Antarctic Science Program under Project AAS4593. AB acknowledges support from the US Office of Naval Research Grant Number N62909-20-1-2080. AM and IT were supported by the Research Council of Norway through the Centre for Sustainable Arctic Marine and Coastal Technology (SAMCoT), the Arctic Offshore and Coastal Engineering in a Changing Climate (AOCEC) project of the Programme for International Partnerships for Excellent Education, Research, and Innovation (IntPart, Project number 274951), and the Dynamics of Floating Ice (DOFI) project of the Large-scale Programme for Petroleum Research (Petromaks2). YK was supported by Lundin Energy Norway (grant 802144). MJ, JR, AM were supported by the Fram Center through the Arctic Ocean flagship grant (project "ThinTec - Thin ice Measurement Technology"). We want to thank the crews of the R/V Kronprins Haakon and the MS Polarsyssel for their invaluable help during fieldwork. IT and AM thank the C-CORE for in-kind support of this work and Ryan Crawford and Erik Veitch for their assistance with the fieldwork. We also want to thank Jim Thomson for his support of our idea to create a github data index, and pointing us to the data he has been involved in releasing openly on data repositories.