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Ice core, auger hole, conductivity, and shapefile data to determine bottomfast sea ice extent from lagoon sites along the Beaufort Sea Coast, Alaska, 2017-2021

The shapefile represents bottomfast sea ice (BSI) extent in lagoons along the Alaska Beaufort Sea coast during winter and spring, 2017-2021. It was created by digitizing extents from interferograms from the Alaska Satellite Facility Vertex portal. The result is used to identify BSI lateral extent in Arctic lagoons during the growth cycle seasonally. Comparing to future interferograms will identify the trend of BSI within Arctic lagoons. Each feature is attributed with applicable date range and area. Accurate data for the initial growth and maximum extent of BSI could only be collected for the winter and spring months. After the last collection in the spring, there is likely still BSI; however, the surface processes that take place after this point prevent further readings. For early winter time periods, if there are interferograms available (2017 and 2018 data had gaps in interferogram collection as Sentinel-1 was still new), the first date collected can be considered the onset of BSI formation. Ice cores are collected using a Snow, Ice, and Permafrost Research Establishment (SIPRE) corer and measured for salinity. The data is logged in Excel format following Seasonal Ice Zone Observing Network (SIZONet) practices, making it compatible with the PySIC Python toolkit for analysis. The auger data identifies key measurements collected from in-situ observations. Data are collected along five surveys and saved as a single CSV file. The data represent a 1-D representation of each auger hole. The data are used to verify satellite interpretations of BSI extent. The apparent conductivity data includes values at three frequencies (1000 Hz, 4000 Hz, 16000 Hz) recorded during the spring of 2021 in Western Elson Lagoon. Data are saved as an EMI file, which is a CSV format with specific column names and header information. MATLAB scripts to read and interpret data are included in this data package. The apparent conductivity values are used to identify the boundary between floating