Waves in ice data obtained outside of the Davis station from the Australian Antarctic Program, projects 4593 and 4506. The wave measurements were obtained by Sofar Spotter instruments deployed on the ice. For more information about the deployment, see: Voermans, Joey J., et al. 'Experimental evidence for a universal threshold characterizing wave-induced sea ice break-up.' The Cryosphere 14.11 (2020): 4265-4278.. Data are reproduced here, but primary hosting is taking place at https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/AAS_4593_WB_IB_2020_all_data . The data presented here are created, stored, and quality checked using the code available at: https://github.com/jerabaul29/data_release_sea_ice_drift_waves_in_ice_marginal_ice_zone_2022/tree/master/Data/2020_January_Antarctic_Davis . More data may be available at the data.aad.gov.au website and in the github repo than in this nc file. Please discuss any question / issue about the present data inside the issue tracker of the github repository.