07949

Buoys: 07949

Buoy 07949 was installed at Site Robert on 6 August 2001 (Event 81). The location was 68.067S, 70.191 W. This was the "super" buoy. It reported position, barometric pressure, air temperature, snow surface position, ice bottom position, internal ice temperature, and incident and transmitted irradiance. The plot below displays the drift track of the buoy.

The above plot shows a time series of air pressure, air temperature, ice temperature, snow depth, ice thickness, and water temperature. The internal ice temperature is displayed using color contours, with blue being cold (-6 C) and red warm (0 C). The boundary at the bottom between orange and navy blue denotes the ice-ocean interface and gray-white boundary is the snow-air interface. The gray represents the snow, though it is possible that the base of the snow gets flooded and forms snow-ice. Over 1 m of snow fell at the site between 6 August and 6 November.