Beaufort Gyre Mooring Data with Ice Draft Measurements

Mooring A collected oceanographic and sea ice data in the Beaufort Gyre for 347 days during 2006-2007. The deployment included a bottom pressure recorder with 16,638 samples and an upward-looking sonar providing 14,971,579 samples of pressure, temperature, and ice draft. The project was conducted by the SCIOPS organization, with data last updated in March 2008.

Use Cases

• Analyze temporal trends in ice draft from the upward-looking sonar's 14.9 million samples to study sea ice thickness variability.
• Correlate bottom pressure recorder measurements of pressure, temperature, and salinity with surface ice conditions to understand water column structure.
• Use the 347-day time-series of temperature and pressure data to validate regional ocean circulation models of the Beaufort Gyre.
• Investigate the relationship between salinity profiles from the bottom recorder and ice melt/freeze processes inferred from ice draft data.

Strengths

• High-resolution ice draft data from an upward-looking sonar with 14,971,579 samples.
• Continuous time-series coverage from a 347-day mooring deployment.

Limitations

• Incomplete instrument suite as the McLane Moored Profiler returned no data.
• Temporal coverage is limited to a single annual cycle from 2006-2007.
• Specific geographic coordinates for the mooring location are not provided.

Provenance

Source

SCIOPS organization, accessed via NASA Earthdata.

Collection Method

Data collected by instruments on a moored oceanographic buoy (Mooring A).

Time Range

2006-2007, covering a 347-day deployment.

Freshness

Data is from a 2006-2007 deployment and was last updated in 2008, representing a historical snapshot.

Geography

Beaufort Gyre region in the Arctic Ocean.