Autonomous ice mass balance buoys

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Autonomous ice mass balance buoys

• Atribute changes in ice cover
• Simple to install
• Results include
• snow accumulation and melt
• ice growth
• ice surface and bottom ablation
• air, ice, ocean temperature
• net surface heat budget
• ocean heat flux
• Easy to add other instruments
• Collocate with other sensor packages

An integrated network atmos, ice, ocean, bio,
chem