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Light absorbing impurity profiles in snow on sea-ice collected during SIPEX II
Particulate impurities in snow such as dust and soot can absorb sunlight. This is important for snow albedo in the Arctic, but probably not in the Antarctic. Snow was collected in plastic bags through the full depth of the snowpack over first-year sea ice at several locations: one location each on Ice Stations 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, upwind of the ship. The snow was melted and the meltwater filtered.
The filters will be analysed for light-absorbing impurities in a laboratory spectrophotometer in Seattle. Samples of size ~1 kg were collected at Ice Station 1. The filters were blank, so at Ice Stations 2 and 3 larger samples of size 2-4 kg were collected. The filters were still blank, so at Ice Stations 4 and 7 larger samples of size ~8 kg were collected; these do show a slight darkening visible by eye. No snow samples were collected at Stations 5 and 6.
Local (ship) time is UTC+10; Sun time is UTC+8. Filters are labelled with prefix 'AO' for Antarctic Ocean.
This dataset currently contains snow density (except for at one ice station) and volumes of melt water that were filtered. No further analysis has been carried out on these samples at this point, however at a later stage the filters will be analysed for spectral absorption and converted to a mixing ratio of black carbon in the snow.
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Identification info
- Alternate title
- Light absorbing impurity profiles in snow on sea-ice collected during SIPEX II
- Date (Publication)
- 2017-09-08
- Edition
- 1
- Citation identifier
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Dataset DOI
- Title
- Information and documentation - Digital object identifier system
- Date (Publication)
- 2012-04-23
- Citation identifier
- ISO 26324:2012
- Citation identifier
- doi:10.4225/15/59b21fbb9f2d8
Originator
Publisher
Principal investigator
Principal investigator
Collaborator
- Name
- CAASM Metadata
- Status
- Completed
Custodian
- Topic category
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- Environment
- Oceans
Extent
))
Extent
- Description
- Temporal Coverage
Temporal extent
- TimePeriod
- 2012-09-14 2012-11-04
- NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
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- EARTH SCIENCE > CRYOSPHERE > SNOW/ICE > ALBEDO
- Keywords
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- SIPEX
- Impurities
- NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
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- SPECTROPHOTOMETERS
- NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
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- R/V AA > R/V Aurora Australis
- NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
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- AMD
- AMD/AU
- CEOS
- ACE/CRC
- NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
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- OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN
- CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA
- GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR
Resource constraints
- Use limitation
- This metadata record is publicly available.
Resource constraints
- Access constraints
- licence
- Other constraints
- These data are publicly available for download from the provided URL.
Resource constraints
- File type
- Portable Network Graphic
- Title
- Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- Website
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https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode
Legal code for Creative Commons by Attribution 4.0 International license
- 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_Impurities when using these data.
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Distribution Information
Distributor
Distributor
Distributor
- Fees
- Free
- Planned available datetime
- 2017-09-08T00:00:00
- Units of distribution
- kb
- Transfer size
- 81
- Distribution format
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- Word
- OnLine resource
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GET DATA
Download point for the data
- OnLine resource
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PROJECT HOME PAGE
Public information for ASAC project 4073
- OnLine resource
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VIEW RELATED INFORMATION
Citation reference for this metadata record and dataset
Resource lineage
- Statement
- Our sampling techniques got better with each ice station, but at the first few ice stations there was a considerable amount of lint in our snow samples. The lint was likely from our gloves. The lint can be carefully removed from the filters once back in Seattle so our results will not be affected.
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
- Maintenance note
- 2012-12-13 - record created by Dave Connell. 2017-09-08 - record updated by Dave Connell to publicly release the data.
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
- string/SIPEX_II_Impurities
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Author
Sponsor
Owner
- Title
- Parent Metadata Record
- Citation identifier
- SIPEX_II
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Dataset
Alternative metadata reference
- Title
- gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
- Citation identifier
- 5103247c-5e88-4420-a77f-1d0eb4447ab3
Alternative metadata reference
- Title
- gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
- Date (Last Revision)
- 2015-11-30T03:23:18
Identifier
- Description
- metadata.extraction_date
Alternative metadata reference
- Title
- gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
- Citation identifier
- 8.6
- Metadata linkage
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http://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/SIPEX_II_Impurities
Point of truth for the metadata record
- Date info (Creation)
- 2012-12-13T00:00:00
- Date info (Last Update)
- 2017-09-08
Metadata standard
- Title
- ISO 19115-3
- Edition
- 2014
- Other citation details
- Version 1
- Title
- DIF to ISO 19115-1 Profile
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