Sea Ice Observations from the Mikhail Somov (39th Russian Antarctic Expedition) March-May 1994

Created 23/06/2025

Updated 23/06/2025

These data describe pack ice characteristics in the Antarctic sea ice zone. These data are in the ASPeCt format. National program: Russia Vessel: Mikhail Somov Dates in ice: 09 Mar 1994 - 09 May 1994 Observers: Unknown Translation to ASPeCt data format: Vladimir Smirnov Summary of voyage track: 9/3 Ice edge at approx. 67S, 13E 9-15/3 Ice edge to Novolazarevskaya (12E) 20-24/3 Novolazarevskaya to Molodezhnaya (46E) 2-9/4 Molodezhnaya to Druzhnaya (74E) 11-12/4 Druzhnaya to Progress (76E) 12-17/4 Progress to Molodezhnaya 25-30/4 Molodezhnaya to Novolazarevskaya 1-9/5 Novolazarevskaya to Bellingshausen St (59W) The fields for 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

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Title Sea Ice Observations from the Mikhail Somov (39th Russian Antarctic Expedition) March-May 1994
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/9a69abf1-a025-49dc-8879-6cd160e14031
Contact Point
Australian Ocean Data Network
metadata@aad.gov.au
Reference Period 09/03/1994 - 09/05/1994
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Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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This dataset was originally found on Australian Oceans Data Network "Sea Ice Observations from the Mikhail Somov (39th Russian Antarctic Expedition) March-May 1994". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://catalogue.aodn.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/sea-ice-observations-from-the-mikhail-somov-39th-russian-antarctic-expedition-march-may-19941