Description: During Polarstern expedition PS131 (ATWAICE: ATlantic WAter pathways to the ICE), a large number of autonomous instruments were installed on three representative ice floes across the marginal ice zone northwest of Svalbard in July 2022. The aim was to investigate sea ice summer melt processes, with a focus on the contribution of the Atlantic water inflow into the region. The attached .zip file includes raw data files obtained from all instruments deployed on the northernmost floe, also referred to as Floe North. Depending on the instrument, the data were transmitted via satellite, collected on internal memory, or both. The instruments were installed on Floe North on 13 July 2022, revisited for maintenance on 20 July 2022, and partially recovered on 30 July 2022. The sensors included 3 ADCPs in different configurations to measure ocean currents, a CTD buoy (SIT) with 6 SBE37IMP and an ECO Triplet fluorometer, a HOBO under-ice conductivity chain, 3 ice mass balance buoys (IMBs) of different types to determine ice surface and bottom melt, a radiation station equipped with 3 TriOS RAMSES radiometers to measure albedo and the under-ice light field, a Campbell Scientific weather station for atmospheric conditions, an OpenMetBuoy (OMB) and IMU logger for wave detection, a handful of GPS drifters to mark instruments, and 4 timelapse cameras to document surface changes. All instruments performed as expected, except one S1000 ADCP that failed due to power issues. All but three instruments (one OpenMetBuoy, one SVP, and one IMB) were recovered before leaving the study area on 30 July. The processed data will be provided and linked to when available.

Description: During Polarstern expedition PS131 (ATWAICE: ATlantic WAter pathways to the ICE), a large number of autonomous instruments were installed on three representative ice floes across the marginal ice zone northwest of Svalbard in July 2022. The aim was to investigate sea ice summer melt processes, with a focus on the contribution of the Atlantic water inflow into the region. The attached .zip file includes raw data files obtained from all instruments deployed on the southernmost floe, also referred to as Floe South. Depending on the instrument, the data were transmitted via satellite, collected on internal memory, or both. The instruments were installed on Floe South on 14 July 2022, revisited for maintenance on 21 July 2022, and partially recovered on 31 July 2022. The sensors included 1 ADCP to measure ocean currents, a CTD buoy (SIT) with 5 SBE37IMP, a SIMBA- and a SIMB-type ice mass balance buoy to determine ice surface and bottom melt, an OpenMetBuoy (OMB) and iridium IMU logger for wave detection, two GPS drifters, and 2 timelapse cameras to document surface changes. All instruments performed as expected. All instruments except one OpenMetBuoy were recovered before leaving the study area on 31 July. The processed data will be provided and linked to when available.

Description: During Polarstern expedition PS131 (ATWAICE: ATlantic WAter pathways to the ICE), a large number of autonomous instruments were installed on three representative ice floes across the marginal ice zone northwest of Svalbard in July 2022. The aim was to investigate sea ice summer melt processes, with a focus on the contribution of the Atlantic water inflow into the region. The attached .zip file includes raw data files obtained from all instruments deployed on Floe Middle, located between Floe North and Floe South. Depending on the instrument, the data were transmitted via satellite, collected on internal memory, or both. The instruments were installed on Floe Middle on 15 July 2022, revisited for maintenance on 22 July 2022, and partially recovered on 31 July 2022. The sensors included 1 ADCP to measure ocean currents, a CTD buoy (SIT) with 5 SBE37IMP and 3 SBE56, a SIMBA-type ice mass balance buoy to determine ice surface and bottom melt, an OpenMetBuoy (OMB) and IMU logger for wave detection, one GPS drifter to mark the ADCP, and 3 timelapse cameras to document surface changes. All instruments performed as expected. All instruments except one OpenMetBuoy were recovered before leaving the study area on 31 July. The processed data will be provided and linked to when available.

Description: A total of 15 OpenMetBuoys (OMBs) were deployed in the marginal ice zone northwest of Svalbard (array of 14 buoys) and on the fast ice off Greenland (one buoy) as part of RV Polarstern expedition PS131 (ATWAICE) in July - August 2022. The OMBs, also referred to as wave buoys, reported GPS position and wave spectra from 20-minute inertial motion averages at hourly intervals via the iridium satellite network. From these, significant wave height and peak wave period can be calculated. Two of the buoys ceased transmission within days of the deployment, while all other buoys recorded data for several weeks/months. The buoys were deployed on ice floes of various dimensions ranging from 15 m to as large as ~2km. The attached .zip archive contains a netcdf file incorporating all buoy data, several python scripts to read and process the data, as well as selected preliminary data quicklooks. The buoys were build and deployed as a collaboration between the Alfred-Wegener-Institute, the University of Tokyo, and the Norwegian Meteorological Institute.