AMSRIce03 Snow Ice Temperature Data

Data Contributors STURM, MATTHEW STROEVE, JULIENNE Parameters ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > AIR TEMPERATURE SEA ICE > ICE TEMPERATURE SNOW/ICE > SNOW DEPTH Instruments PROBES THERMISTORS

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This data set contains snow ice temperature measurements collected over sea ice in the Barrow, Alaska USA area as part of the joint in situ and aircraft AMSRIce03 campaign conducted in March 2003. The snow ice temperature data were collected on 13 March 2003 and on 20 March 2003. Data set parameters are ice temperature, air temperature, snow/ice interface temperature, and snow depth. Temperatures were measured using a thermistor probe. Snow depth was measured with a self-recording depth probe. The total volume of this data set is approximately 11 kilobytes. Data are provided in five American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) text files and are available via FTP.

These data were collected as part of a validation study for the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer - Earth Observing System (AMSR-E). AMSR-E is a mission instrument launched aboard NASA's Aqua Satellite on 04 May 2002.

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Sturm, Matthew, and Julienne C. Stroeve. 2009. AMSRIce03 Snow Ice Temperature Data. [indicate subset used]. Boulder, Colorado USA: National Snow and Ice Data Center.

See Also

• AMSRIce03 Data
• AMSR-E Validation Data
• AMSRIce03 Data
• AMSR-E Validation Data
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