Table 8 Description of the YAML file field names and tabular (Tab.) database column labels.

From: Reusability-targeted enrichment of sea ice core data

Field name/Column label	Unit	Description	YAML	Tab.
depth	m	depth value of the sea ice temperature and salinity measurements		✓
development-stage-SIN... -level-1_sea-ice and -level-2_sea-ice	m	term as classified in Development Section 2 of SIN¹⁵ sub-categories level 1 (2.x) and level 2 (2.x.y)		✓*
INFO_residual_ice		info on intersection with residual ice		✓*
INFO_SIN		info on SIN automatic enrichment		✓*
latitude		in decimal degrees		✓
latitude		in decimal degrees		✓
longitude		in decimal degrees		✓
mean-distance-measurements... -salinity_sea-ice and -temperature_sea-ice	m	mean distance between measurements of one core salinity sea ice and temperature sea ice		✓*
mean... -salinity_sea-ice and -temperature_sea-ice	ppt K	mean values of all measurements of salinity of sea ice and temperature of sea ice		✓*
ocean-SeaVox		ocean from SeaVoX¹⁶ derived from coordinates		✓*
sea-SeaVox		sea from SeaVoX¹⁶ derived from coordinates		✓*
[column label]_adjusted		indicates adjustment of values w.r.t. original sources		✓
[column label]_comment		excerpt/figure/table/inconsistencies/adjustments		✓
[column label]_doi		doi (sometimes url) of the source		✓
[column label]_source		name of the source as listed in Table 3		✓
calculation-method-temperature_sea-ice		potential computational manipulations of the measurement data (e.g., interpolation)	✓	✓
campaign		name of campaign/expedition/project	✓	✓
date		date of core retrieval, in YYYY-MM-DD format	✓	✓
development-stage_sea-ice		sea ice age classification	✓	✓
form_sea-ice		pack ice, drift ice, or fast ice as called in the source	✓	✓
freeboard_sea-ice	m	sea ice thickness above water level	✓	✓
id		combination of campaign name and core number	✓	✓
measurement-device-accuracy... -salinity_sea-ice, -temperature_air and -temperature_sea-ice	ppt K K	accuracy of measurement device salinity sea ice, temperature air and temperature sea ice	✓	✓
measurement-device... -salinity_sea-ice, -temperature_air and -temperature_sea-ice		name of measurement device for salinity sea ice, temperature air and temperature sea ice	✓	✓
polar-region		Arctic or Antarctica	✓	✓
salinity_sea-ice	ppt	bulk salinity of sea ice (in YAML combined with depth)	✓	✓
temperature_air	K	temperature of air	✓	✓
temperature_sea-ice	K	temperature of sea ice (in YAML combined with depth)	✓	✓
thickness_sea-ice	m	thickness of sea ice	✓	✓
thickness_snow	m	thickness of snow cover on top of sea ice	✓	✓
water-body		name of water body at the coring location	✓	✓
name		name of the core in the extendable database	✓
coordinates		"N”: 74.70933, “E”: -95.24408, in decimal degrees	✓
[field name]_option		in case two sources provide the same field (see Table 7)	✓

Column labels of the tabular database assigned with an asterisk alongside the check mark are automatically enriched as described in Step 5. Coordinates in the YAML files are transformed into Latitude and Longitude columns in the tabular database. For profile measurements temperature and salinity sea ice, depth is combined with the measurements in the YAML files. In the tabular database, depth is a separate column. The column labels starting with [column label] represent the YAML file sub-fields as listed in Table 7 in the tabular database. Placeholder [column label] is then replaced by any other column label such as salinity_sea-ice.

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Table 8 Description of the YAML file field names and tabular (Tab.) database column labels.

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