Sea Ice Drift Tracks for the Sea Ice Dynamic Experiment (SIDEx) Field Campaign from geodetic Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) SATICE Buoys, Alaska, 2021

The Sea Ice Dynamics Experiment was a field campaign in the Beaufort Sea during February to April 2021. The field experiment was designed to investigate the interaction of ice stress, strain, and fracture over meter-to-kilometer spatial scales as ice fractured and subsequently deformed. Observations were collected in situ at an ice camp, using autonomous buoys, and with remote sensing. Observations were collected over a variety of scales, including scales larger than the target meter (m) to kilometer (km) scale. This dataset is one facet of the multi-modal data package collected together in this parent archive.
This dataset contains 12 quality-controlled drift tracks from high-precision satellite positioning (SATICE) buoys deployed on sea ice within about 100 km of the Sea Ice Dynamic Experiment (SIDEx) camp. Buoy deployments began on 2021 March 2 and was completed by 2021 March 12. Between then and March 18, buoys were deployed to monitor ice deformation over roughly a 2 km region about the camp. The purpose of these deployments was to monitor ice motion about the camp that could be related to stress and strain-rates observed within an observation array on the ice camp floe.