Sea Ice Observations from Polarstern voyage ANT XVIII/3
These data describe pack ice characteristics in the Antarctic sea ice zone. These data are in the ASPeCt format.
National program: Germany Vessel: Polarstern Dates in ice: 12 Dec 2000 - 22 Dec 2000 Observers: Gerd Rohardt, others
Summary of voyage track: North-south sections near the prime meridian from the ice edge to Neumeyer station and back to the ice edge.
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
Data and resources
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Download point for sea ice softwareHTML Open
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Download point for the data - log files, postscript files, excel files.HTML Open
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ASPECT websiteHTML Open
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Download the ASPECT Report - A Technique for Making Ship-Based Observations of Antarctic Sea Ice Thickness and CharacteristicsHTML Open
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Readme file containing instructions on how to use the log files and software.HTML Open
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Citation reference for this metadata record and datasetHTML Open
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PNG Open
Additional information
| Temporal extent | 2000-12-12 – 2000-12-22 |
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| Date (publication) | 2002-02-22 |
| Status | completed |
| Update frequency | asNeeded |
| Metadata language | en |
| License | This metadata record is publicly available. |
| Source metadata | ISO 19115 XML |
| Last updated | 2026-11-05 |
| Created | 2026-11-05 |
| API | package_show |