Mooring B in the Beaufort Gyre collected oceanographic and sea ice data over a 353-day deployment from 2007 to 2008. The dataset includes over 15 million samples from instruments like an upward-looking sonar, a bottom pressure recorder, and a moored profiler. The Beaufort Gyre Exploration Project, organized by SCIOPS, published this data in 2009.
Use Cases
- Analyze sea ice thickness variability using the 15,279,220 ice draft samples from the upward-looking sonar.
- Study ocean stratification and water mass properties using the 69 profiles of salinity, temperature, and pressure from the McLane Moored Profiler.
- Model bottom pressure variations and infer ocean currents from the 33,879 samples recorded by the bottom pressure recorder.
- Correlate temperature measurements from multiple instruments to understand heat distribution in the water column.
- Investigate the seasonal cycle of the Beaufort Gyre using the year-long time-series of horizontal velocity, temperature, and salinity.
Strengths
- High-resolution time-series with over 15 million ice draft samples
- Year-long deployment covering 353 days of continuous observation
- Multi-instrument data including pressure, temperature, salinity, velocity, and ice draft
Limitations
- Data is from a single mooring location, limiting spatial representativeness
- Temporally limited to a single annual cycle from 2007-2008
- Specific sample counts for some profiler variables (e.g., velocity) are not detailed
Provenance
- Source
- Beaufort Gyre Exploration Project, organized by SCIOPS, via NASA Earthdata
- Collection Method
- Data collected from an instrumented oceanographic mooring deployed in the Arctic Ocean.
- Time Range
- 2007-2008 (353-day deployment)
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- Beaufort Gyre region of the Arctic Ocean (specific mooring location B)