Ice and snow pit measurements observed during the SIPEX II voyage of the Aurora Australis, 2012

This dataset contains routine measurements of snow and ice thickness, and snow-ice interface temperature, at 1m intervals along standard transects; snow property characterisation in snow pits measured at 0m, 50m and 100m along the transects; and sea ice cores acquired at various locations both along the transects and elsewhere on ice station floes during the 2012 SIPEX 2 marine science voyage.


Ice temperature information is acquired from the cores, which are taken on-board for further analysis. The latter includes thin-section analysis of sea-ice stratigraphy and crystallography at -20C within the freezer lab on-board the ship. The cores are then cut up into 5cm sections and melted for analysis of salinity and stable oxygen isotopes.


Observation items:

Snow:

- Thickness

- Temperature profile (every 3 cm)

- Snow-ice interface temperature at 1m intervals along the 100m transects

- Grain size

- Grain shape

- Density

- Hardness

- Salinity

- Stable oxygen isotope

Ice:

- Thickness

- Freeboard

- Draft

- Temperature

- Salinity

- Stable oxygen isotope

- Crystallography and texture

- Density


Instruments:


Snow:

Folding scales, Spatula, Thermometer, Snow sampler, Magnifying glass, Salinometer, Temperature and thickness probes, scales


Ice:

Drills, corers, ice-thickness tape measures, thermometer, salinometer, band-saw, cross-polarising filter, scales


The data are recorded in log books (scanned copies are included in this dataset) and have been transferred into the standard AAD sea-ice database templates (in excel format) for each station.

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Identification info

Alternate title
Ice and snow pit measurements observed during the SIPEX II voyage of the Aurora Australis, 2012
Date (Publication)
2017-09-07
Edition
1
Citation identifier
Dataset DOI

Title
Information and documentation - Digital object identifier system
Date (Publication)
2012-04-23
Citation identifier
ISO 26324:2012

Citation identifier
doi:10.4225/15/59b0c7fd5c76f

Originator

Toyota, T., Lecomte, O., Massom, R., Giles, B. and Heil, P.

Publisher

Australian Antarctic Data Centre

Principal investigator

TOYOTA, TAKENOBU
Institute of Low Temperature Science
Hokkaido University
N19W8
Kita-ku
Sapporo
060-0819
Japan

Principal investigator

LECOMTE, OLIVIER
University Catholique
Louvain-la-Neuve
Wallonia
Belgium

Principal investigator

MASSOM, ROB
Australian Antarctic Division
203 Channel Highway
Kingston
Tasmania
7050
Australia

Principal investigator

GILES, BARRY
Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre
Private Bag 80, c/o University of Tasmania
Sandy Bay
Tasmania
7005
Australia

Principal investigator

HEIL, PETRA
Antarctic CRC
GPO Box 252 - 80
University of Tasmania
Hobart
Tasmania
7001
Australia

Collaborator

TOYOTA, TAKENOBU
Institute of Low Temperature Science
Hokkaido University
N19W8
Kita-ku
Sapporo
060-0819
Japan

Collaborator

LECOMTE, OLIVIER
University Catholique
Louvain-la-Neuve
Wallonia
Belgium

Collaborator

MASSOM, ROB
Australian Antarctic Division
203 Channel Highway
Kingston
Tasmania
7050
Australia

Collaborator

GILES, BARRY
Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre
Private Bag 80, c/o University of Tasmania
Sandy Bay
Tasmania
7005
Australia

Collaborator

HEIL, PETRA
Antarctic CRC
GPO Box 252 - 80
University of Tasmania
Hobart
Tasmania
7001
Australia
Name
CAASM Metadata
Website
https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/SIPEX_II_Ice_Snowpits

Status
Completed

Custodian

AU/AADC > Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia - AADC, DATA OFFICER (DATA CENTER CONTACT)
Australian Antarctic Division
203 Channel Highway
Kingston
Tasmania
7050
Australia
Topic category
  • Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
  • Environment
  • Oceans

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Description
Temporal Coverage

Temporal extent

TimePeriod
2012-09-27 2012-09-28

Extent

Description
Temporal Coverage

Temporal extent

TimePeriod
2012-10-03 2012-10-04

Extent

Description
Temporal Coverage

Temporal extent

TimePeriod
2012-10-06 2012-10-08

Extent

Description
Temporal Coverage

Temporal extent

TimePeriod
2012-10-13 2012-10-14

Extent

Description
Temporal Coverage

Temporal extent

TimePeriod
2012-10-19 2012-10-23
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • EARTH SCIENCE > CRYOSPHERE > SEA ICE > ICE DEPTH/THICKNESS
  • EARTH SCIENCE > CRYOSPHERE > SEA ICE > ICE TEMPERATURE
  • EARTH SCIENCE > CRYOSPHERE > SEA ICE > ISOTOPES
  • EARTH SCIENCE > CRYOSPHERE > SEA ICE > SALINITY
  • EARTH SCIENCE > CRYOSPHERE > SEA ICE > SNOW DEPTH
  • EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SEA ICE > ICE DEPTH/THICKNESS
  • EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SEA ICE > ICE TEMPERATURE
  • EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SEA ICE > ISOTOPES
  • EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SEA ICE > SALINITY
  • EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SEA ICE > SNOW DEPTH
  • EARTH SCIENCE > CRYOSPHERE > SNOW/ICE > ICE DEPTH/THICKNESS
  • EARTH SCIENCE > CRYOSPHERE > SNOW/ICE > SNOW/ICE TEMPERATURE
Keywords
  • SIPEX
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • Thermometers
  • SALINOMETERS
  • SNOWPACK TEMPERATURE PROBE
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • R/V AA > R/V Aurora Australis
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • AMD
  • AMD/AU
  • CEOS
  • ACE/CRC
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA
  • OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN
  • GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR

Resource constraints

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This metadata record is publicly available.

Resource constraints

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licence
Other constraints
These data are publicly available for download from the provided URL.

Resource constraints

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Portable Network Graphic
Linkage
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Title
Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Website
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Use constraints
licence
Other 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_Ice_Snowpits when using these data.
Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Distribution Information

Distributor

Distributor

AU/AADC > Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia - AADC, DATA OFFICER (DATA CENTER CONTACT)
Australian Antarctic Division
203 Channel Highway
Kingston
Tasmania
7050
Australia

Distributor

Fees
Free
Planned available datetime
2017-09-07T00:00:00
Units of distribution
MB
Transfer size
1.1
Distribution format
  • Excel, pdf

OnLine resource
GET DATA

Download point for the data

OnLine resource
PROJECT HOME PAGE

Public information for ASAC project 4073

OnLine resource
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Citation reference for this metadata record and dataset

Maintenance and update frequency
As needed
Maintenance note
2013-03-07 - record created by Dave Connell from a template completed by Takenobu Toyota. 2017-09-07 - record updated by Dave Connell to publicly release the data.

Metadata

Metadata identifier
string/SIPEX_II_Ice_Snowpits

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Author

TOYOTA, TAKENOBU
Institute of Low Temperature Science
Hokkaido University
N19W8
Kita-ku
Sapporo
060-0819
Japan

Sponsor

Australian Antarctic Division

Owner

AADC
Title
Parent Metadata Record
Citation identifier
SIPEX_II

Type of resource

Resource scope
Dataset

Alternative metadata reference

Title
gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
Citation identifier
61ee4cd8-8919-496f-ab3c-b73c604ce258

Alternative metadata reference

Title
gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
Date (Last Revision)
2015-11-30T07:47:51

Identifier

Description
metadata.extraction_date

Alternative metadata reference

Title
gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
Citation identifier
8.6

Metadata linkage
http://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/SIPEX_II_Ice_Snowpits

Point of truth for the metadata record

Date info (Creation)
2013-03-07T00:00:00
Date info (Last Update)
2017-09-07

Metadata standard

Title
ISO 19115-3
Edition
2014
Other citation details
Version 1
Title
DIF to ISO 19115-1 Profile
 
 

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