2022 drifting wave buoy observations in the melting Greenland Sea marginal ice zone deployed from R/V Polarstern

14 OpenMetBuoys (OMB) that measure ocean waves in sea ice were deployed in the Greenland Sea marginal ice zone (MIZ) north west of Svalbard (another buoy, OMB-744, was deployed in the fast ice offshore of east Greenland) during the Polarstern expedition in July--Aug 2022 (PS131). The OMBs were deployed on ice floes of various dimensions ranging from 15 m to as large as ~2km, and thickness, when measured, ranged from 1 m to >2 m. They were spatially distributed to try to cover broad width of the MIZ. The OMBs were deployed opportunistically primarily using the mummy chair (and sometimes using a helicopter) as well as at the three ice camp sites that were revisited three times during PS131.
This observation was conducted as a collaborative work between the University of Tokyo and Alfred Wegener Institiute (Dr Mario Hoppmann).
The OMB details are provided in Rabault et al. 2022 method paper (https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences12030110).