A document by David Nicholas Wagner. Click on the document to view its contents.

We measured during the MOSAiC field experiment the snow microstructure on sea-ice from early winter to the melt season, and continued measurements with the surface scattering layer. We could measure every week 1-2 full snow profiles between 0.1-0.3 m. We extracted, mostly in-situ, cores of 48-78 mm diameter and of about 0.1 m length, and scanned with 18-28 µm resolution. The goal of these measurements is to understand the formation and metamorphism of the snowpack in detail, and to derive detailed geometrical and physical properties from the samples. We will present first examples and and overview of characteristic snow profiles from leg 1 - 4, spanning the winter, spring and melt season.