OpenMetBuoy data from expedition ARTofMELT, Arctic Ocean, 2023

Denis Demchev, Leif E. B. Eriksson, Truls Karlsen, Malin Johansson, Timo Vihma, Jean Rabault

The CHALMERS 2023 OpenMetBuoy-v2021 deployment data contains measurements of sea ice drift and waves in ice from seven OpenMetBuoys deployed on three sea ice floes West of Svalbard.

The buoys were deployed to collect information about sea ice dynamics, including position, drift speed, ice floe rotation, ice floe deformation and break up (and potentially formation of ice ridges and opening of leads), and waves in ice.

The OpenMetBuoys were anchored on the ice and transmitted data via an Iridium data link. The first two ice floes were equipped with three OpenMetBuoys each. The third ice floe only got one buoy.

Data were collected during the ARTofMELT 2023 with Swedish icebreaker Oden in the Fram Strait pack ice during the spring transition (8 May to 14 June) of 2023. Five of the OpenMetBuoys continued to send data after June 14, in one case until November 11, 2023.

MarineObservationsSea iceSea ice dynamicsWavesArcticArctic OceanARTofMELTARTofMELT 2023 expeditionIcebreaker OdenFram Strait

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References

Rabault J, Taelman C, Idžanović M, Hope G, Nose T, Kristoffersen Y, Jensen A, Breivik Ø, Bryhni HT, Hoppmann M, Demchev D, Korosov A, Johansson M, Eltoft T, Dagestad K-F, Röhrs J, Eriksson L, Moro MD, Rikardsen ESU, Waseda T, Kodaira T, Lohse J, Desjonquères T, Olsen S, Gundersen O, de Aguiar VCM, Karlsen T, Babanin A, Voermans J, Park J-W, Müller M (2024) A position and wave spectra dataset of Marginal Ice Zone dynamics collected around Svalbard in 2022 and 2023. Scientific Data 11:1417. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-04281-1

Data description

• Data format: NetCDF
• Buoy type: OpenMetBuoy-v2021

Hardware, firmware, and data post-processing details are available in the GitHub repository jerabaul29/OpenMetBuoy-v2021a.

Comments

The expedition

Data were collected during the ARTofMELT 2023 expedition on board the Swedish icebreaker Oden, which was organized by the Swedish Polar Research Secretariat from 8 May through 14 June, 2023.

Data creators' roles

• Denis Demchev (preparation of buoys, main responsible for deployment of buoys)
• Leif Eriksson (principle investigator, preparation of buoys, buoy data management, contact person)
• Truls Karlsen (deployment of buoys)
• Malin Johansson (preparation of buoy, deployment adviser)
• Timo Vihma (deployment of buoys)
• Jean Rabault (development of buoy, buoy data support, publication of buoy data)

Project

ARTofMELT 2023 expedition

Publisher

Norwegian Meteorological Institute / Arctic Data Centre

License

First name

Leif

Last name or organisation

Eriksson

Email address

leif.eriksson@chalmers.se

Address

Department of Environmental and Energy Sciences; Chalmers University of Technology

Postal code

SE-412 96

City

Gothenburg

Country

Sweden

GCMD science keyword

Earth science > Oceans > Sea ice > Sea ice motion

GCMD location

Ocean > Arctic Ocean

Dataset language

English

Begin date

2023-05-21

End date

2023-11-11

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