370 days of oceanographic data were collected from Mooring A in the Beaufort Gyre between 2005 and 2006. The dataset includes over 15.9 million samples of ice draft from an upward-looking sonar, 279 profiles of salinity and velocity from a moored profiler, and 17,755 bottom pressure recordings. The data was collected by the SCIOPS organization and published in March 2007.
Use Cases
- Model sea ice thickness and variability using the 15,972,940 ice draft samples from the upward-looking sonar.
- Analyze water column structure and currents using the 279 profiles of pressure, temperature, salinity, and horizontal velocity from the McLane Moored Profiler.
- Study bottom pressure variations and deep ocean conditions from the 17,755 samples of pressure, temperature, and salinity recorded by the bottom pressure recorder.
- Correlate ice draft data with concurrent in-situ temperature and salinity measurements to investigate ice-ocean heat and salt fluxes.
Strengths
- High temporal resolution for ice draft, with over 15.9 million samples collected over 370 days.
- Multi-instrument deployment providing concurrent measurements of ice, water column profiles, and bottom pressure.
Limitations
- Data is temporally limited to a single annual cycle from 2005-2006.
- Spatial coverage is limited to a single mooring location in the Beaufort Gyre.
- Sample data and specific column names are unavailable, complicating initial analysis.
Provenance
- Source
- nasa_earthdata
- Collection Method
- Data collected via an instrumented oceanographic mooring equipped with a bottom pressure recorder, a McLane Moored Profiler, and an upward-looking sonar.
- Time Range
- 2005-2006 (370-day deployment)
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- Beaufort Gyre, Arctic Ocean (specific mooring location A)