Table 2 Protocol Steps.

From: A Database of Snow on Sea Ice in the Central Arctic Collected during the MOSAiC expedition

Protocol A (Complete sampling of physical and chemical properties)

Protocol B (Typically only the physical measurements taken)

Protocol C (Quick measurements)

*All protocol B and C measurements

*All protocol C measurements

Metadata collection

Chemical Sampling

Overview pictures of the site

Snow Micro Penetrometer profiles (SMP)

 

Pictures for airborne structure from motion (SfM)

Near infrared pictures (850 nm and 940 nm)

 

GPS waypoint

 
 

Snow height

 
 

SWE (ETH tube)

 
 

Density (volumetric)

 
 

Snow temperature

 
 

micro-CT samples/ casting

 
 

Salinity and stable water isotope samples

 
 

Permittivity

 
  1. This table lists the instruments taken to each of the snowpit types; “A“, “B“ and “C“. This was not always followed directly due to time, conditions and other limitations.