Automated ice mass balance site (SIZONET)

An automated site located near Barrow, Alaska in the Chukchi Sea landfast ice records ice thickness, snow depth, ice temperature, sea level (as measured on floating ice), and air temperature at regular (typically 30 min.) intervals during the ice growth and early melt season from (typically) January through June each year. Data are collected as part of the Seasonal Ice Zone Observing Network (SIZONet) and the Alaska Ocean Observing System (AOOS), by the sea-ice research group at the Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, P.O. Box 757320, Fairbanks, AK 99775-7320, USA (

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