Summary Abstract: These data describe pack ice characteristics in the Antarctic sea ice zone. These data are in the ASPeCt format. National program: Russia Vessel: Akademic Fedorov Dates in ice: 30 Mar 1994 - 21 Apr 1994 Observers: Unknown Translation to ASPeCt data format: Vladimir Smirnov Summary of voyage track: 30/3 Ice edge at approx. 65S, 81E 30/3-3/4 Ice edge to Oasiz (100E) 3-9/4 Oazis to Druzhnaya (74E) 9-11/4 Druzhnaya to Progress (76E) 12-16/4 Progress to Mirny (93E) 19-21/4 Mirny to ice edge at approx. 64S, 86E The fields in this dataset are: SEA ICE CONCENTRATION SEA ICE FLOE SIZE SEA ICE SNOW COVER SEA ICE THICKNESS SEA ICE TOPOGRAPHY SEA ICE TYPE RECORD DATE TIME LATITUDE LONGITUDE OPEN WATER TRACK SNOW THICKNESS SNOW TYPE SEA TEMPERATURE AIR TEMPERATURE WIND VELOCITY WIND DIRECTION FILM COUNTER FRAME COUNTER FOR FILM VIDEO RECORDER COUNTER VISIBILITY CODE CLOUD WEATHER CODE COMMENTS

Related URL

Link: GET DATA Description: Download point for the data - log files, postcript files, excel files. Link: GET SERVICE > GET SOFTWARE PACKAGE Description: Download point for sea ice software. Link: VIEW PROJECT HOME PAGE Description: ASPECT website Link: VIEW RELATED INFORMATION Description: Readme file containing instructions on how to use the log files and software. Link: VIEW RELATED INFORMATION Description: Citation reference for this metadata record and dataset

Parent DIF

This data set description is a member of a collection. The collection is described in ASPECT

Geographic Coverage

N: -64.0

S: -70.0

E: 101.0

W: 73.0

Temporal Coverage

Start Date: 1994-03-30

Stop Date: 1994-04-21

Location Keywords

OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA GEOGRAPHIC REGION > ARCTIC GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR

Science Keywords

CRYOSPHERE >SEA ICE >ICE DEPTH/THICKNESS    [Definition]

CRYOSPHERE >SEA ICE >ICE FLOES    [Definition]

CRYOSPHERE >SEA ICE >ICE TYPES    [Definition]

CRYOSPHERE >SEA ICE >PACK ICE    [Definition]

CRYOSPHERE >SEA ICE >SEA ICE CONCENTRATION    [Definition]

ISO Topic Category

OCEANS

Platform

SHIPS    [Information]

Project

ASPECT >Antarctic Sea Ice Processes and Climate    [Information]

Quality

Each parameter is assigned a data quality flag as defined below: Flag 1: Error free Flag 2: Dubious. Non-specific errors Flag 3: Known errors exist that can be fixed Flag 4: Known errors exist that cannot be fixed Flag 5: No data - not observed Flag 6: Data in analog format only Time and position: 1 Total ice concentration: 1 Open water: 1 Pri ice concentration: 1 Pri ice type: 1 Pri ice thickness: 1 Pri floe size: 1 Pri topography: 1/5 (Percent ridging = 1; Average sail height = 5) Pri snow type: 1 Pri snow thickness: 1 Sec ice concentration: 1 Sec ice type: 1 Sec ice thickness: 1 Sec floe size: 1 Sec topography: 1/5 (Percent ridging = 1; Average sail height = 5) Sec snow type: 1 Sec snow thickness: 1 Ter ice concentration: 1 Ter ice type: 1 Ter ice thickness: 1 Ter floe size: 1 Ter topography: 1/5 (Percent ridging = 1; Average sail height = 5) Ter snow type: 1 Ter snow thickness: 1 Air temperature: 1 Water temperature: 1 Wind speed: 1 Wind direction: 1 Cloud: 1 Current weather: 1 Visibility: 1 Video reading: 5 Photo (film no.): 5 Photo (frame no.): 5 Comments: 1

Access Constraints

None. The data are freely available. The data are available for download from the given url. Note that to use the original log files, you will also need to download the provided software in order to extract the data.

Use Constraints

This data set conforms to the PICCCBY Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/). Authors should acknowledge use of the ASPeCt data archive. Please follow instructions listed in the citation reference provided at the URL below when using these data.

Keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE

CLOUD

COMMENTS

DATE

FILM COUNTER

FRAME COUNTER FOR FILM

LATITUDE

LONGITUDE

OPEN WATER

RECORD

SEA ICE CONCENTRATION

SEA ICE FLOE SIZE

SEA ICE SNOW COVER

SEA ICE THICKNESS

SEA ICE TOPOGRAPHY

SEA ICE TYPE

SEA TEMPERATURE

SNOW THICKNESS

SNOW TYPE

TIME

TRACK

VIDEO RECORDER COUNTER

VISIBILITY CODE

WEATHER CODE

WIND DIRECTION

WIND VELOCITY

Data Set Progress

COMPLETE

Originating Center

Data Center

Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia    [Information] Data Center URL: http://data.aad.gov.au Data Center Personnel Name: DATA OFFICER AADC Phone: +61 3 6232 3244 Fax: +61 3 6232 3351 Email: metadata at aad.gov.au Contact Address: Australian Antarctic Division 203 Channel Highway City: Kingston Province or State: Tasmania Postal Code: 7050 Country: Australia

Distribution

Distribution_Media: HTTP Distribution_Format: pdf, text Fees: free

Personnel

ANTHONY PETER WORBY Role: TECHNICAL CONTACT Role: DIF AUTHOR Phone: +61 3 6232 5414 Email: tony.worby at csiro.au Contact Address: CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research Castray Esplanade City: Hobart Province or State: Tasmania Postal Code: 7001 Country: Australia

VLADIMIR SMIRNOV Role: INVESTIGATOR Phone: +7 812 352 1043 Fax: +7 812 352 2688 Email: vgs at aari.nw.ru Contact Address: 38 Bering St Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute City: St Petersburg Postal Code: 199397 Country: Russia

Creation and Review Dates

DIF Creation Date: 2001-08-06 Last DIF Revision Date: 2009-01-21

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