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Abstract:
Data set with data from an ice mass balance (IMB) buoy deployed on fast ice off the northeast Greenland coast from August 2012 to August 2013, and associated CTD profiles near the fast ice taken from R/V Lance at deployment.
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The IMB deployed in the Norske Øer Ice Barrier (NØIB) fast ice was designed by the U.S. Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) jointly with MetOcean Ltd, Canada. The IMB measures, (1) distances to the surface and to the ice bottom using acoustic rangefinder above and below the ice, (2) vertical temperature profile from air, through snow and ice, into the upper-ocean with a 4.5 m long thermistor chain at 0.1 m intervals, (3) near surface air temperature and atmospheric pressure, and (4) buoy position.
IMB data is provided in a CSV file (IMB_FS2012.csv) with a header line. At deployment snow depth was 0.19 m and ice thickness 2.56 m (but this likely included a false bottom). The original IMB data is also available from the CRREL-Dartmouth Mass Balance Buoy Program (IMB 2012M) through the link provided.
The CTD data was collected onboard R/V Lance, in the vicinity if the fast ice. Four CTD profiles are included in this data set (fs2012_ctd.csv), two from east and two from west if the fast ice area at the time of IMB deployment.