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  • This is the output from high-resolution model simulations of ocean conditions and melting beneath the floating part of Thwaites Glacier. The model is designed to study how these conditions change as the geometry of Thwaites Glacier evolved from 2011-2022. There is one simulation using the geometry from each year during this period, derived from satellite observations. The simulations are repeated for different ocean model forcing conditions, as described in the associated paper. PH was supported by the NERC/NSF Thwaites-MELT project (NE/S006656/1). ITGC contribution number 099. *******PLEASE BE ADVISED TO USE VERSION 2.0 DATA******* Version 2 is available at https://doi.org/10.5285/473eb97c-63a8-4002-8b72-e7f07b2ab228. (Version 1 has the seabed bathymetry and ice shelf topography files incorrectly oriented.)

  • This dataset contains sea-air methane flux data from January 2019 to March 2021 measured using a Picarro G2311-f greenhouse gas analyser onboard RRS James Clark Ross, in the Southern Ocean, Arctic Ocean and Atlantic Ocean. The fluxes are 2 hour averaged and have been filtered based on wind direction to data corresponding to wind coming from behind the ship to remove sources of pollution from the ship stack. Limit of detection for the flux data are calculated for each cruise by multiplying the standard deviation of the random noise by three. This work was supported by the Natural Environment Research Council and the ARIES Doctoral Training Partnership (grant no. NE/S007334/1). Royal Holloway, University of London was funded by NERC through grants NE/V000780/1 and NE/N016211/1. Anna E. Jones and Katrin Linse were part of the British Antarctic Survey Polar Science for Planet Earth Programme funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) [NC-Science]. The measurements from the Royal Research Ship James Clark Ross (JCR) were principally supported by the UK Natural Environment Research Council''s ORCHESTRA project (Grant No. NE/N018095/1). The Picarro analyser was funded by the European Space Agency funding (ESA AMT4OceanSatFlux project, Grant No. 4000125730/18/NL/FF/gp). This work further contributes to the NERC MOYA project (Grant No. NE/N015932/1).

  • During the MOSAiC expedition in the Central Arctic Ocean (CAO, 2019-2020), POM was sampled weekly to fortnightly from surface waters and the Chlorophyll a maximum layer (Chl a max) via CTD casts and from bottom sea ice of the floe via ice coring (first- and second-year ice, two layers nearest to the water-ice interface). The POM was filtered onboard (GF/F filters) and deep frozen for the subsequent analysis of a suite of lipid biomarkers, including IP25 and other highly-branched isoprenoids (HBI), fatty acids (FA) and sterols. These biomarkers can provide valuable information about the nutritional value, the taxonomic composition (e.g. diatoms vs flagellates), and the origin of the POM that represents the basis of the Central Arctic food web. This dataset comprises the results from the HBI analysis only, while the FA dataset is already published and the sterol data will be submitted shortly. The separation of the various lipid biomarkers was carried out at the University of Plymouth. After addition of internal standards for each of the 3 components, the filters were saponified with KOH. Thereafter, non-saponifiable lipids (HBI and sterols) were extracted with hexane and purified by open column chromatography (SiO2). Fatty acids were obtained by adding concentrated HCl to the saponified solution and re-extracted with hexane. The analysis of IP25 was carried out using an Agilent 7890A gas chromatograph (GC), coupled to an Agilent 5975 mass selective detector (mass spectrometry, MS), fitted with an Agilent HP-5ms column with auto-splitless injection and helium carrier gas. Identification of IP25 and other HBIs was achieved by comparison of their individual GC retention indices and mass spectra with those obtained from purified standards. IP25 was quantified by, first, integrating individual ion responses in selected-ion monitoring mode (m/z 350.3), second, normalising these to the corresponding peak area of the internal standard and, third, applying an instrumental response factor obtained from a purified standard. These IP25 quantities per filter can be normalised to the volume of filtered seawater or melted ice core water. Contributions by KS were funded by the UK''s Natural Environment Research Council MOSAiC Thematic project SYM-PEL: ''''Quantifying the contribution of sympagic versus pelagic diatoms to Arctic food webs and biogeochemical fluxes: application of source-specific highly branched isoprenoid biomarkers''''/ (NE/S002502/1)