Mooring C collected over 15.5 million samples of ice draft, pressure, and temperature from an upward-looking sonar during a 360-day deployment. The project also gathered 318 ocean profiles of salinity and horizontal velocity, alongside over 20,000 bottom pressure records. Data was collected by the Beaufort Gyre Exploration Project from 2003 to 2004 under organization SCIOPS.
Use Cases
- Analyze temporal trends in ice draft from the 15.5 million sonar samples to study sea ice thickness variability.
- Correlate bottom pressure recorder data with temperature and salinity to investigate water mass properties and density.
- Use the 318 profiles of horizontal velocity, pressure, and salinity to model ocean current patterns in the Beaufort Gyre.
- Combine ice draft measurements with concurrent temperature profiles to examine ice-ocean heat exchange processes.
Strengths
- High-resolution time series with 15,538,760 ice draft samples from the upward-looking sonar.
- Multi-instrument deployment providing 318 full water column profiles over a 360-day period.
Limitations
- Data is temporally limited to a single annual cycle from 2003-2004.
- Geographic coverage is restricted to a single mooring location in the Beaufort Gyre.
- Specific data formats and column structures are unknown, complicating initial analysis.
Provenance
- Source
- Beaufort Gyre Exploration Project, organization SCIOPS, via NASA Earthdata.
- Collection Method
- Data collected by a moored oceanographic station equipped with a bottom pressure recorder, a McLane Moored Profiler, and an upward-looking sonar.
- Time Range
- 2003 to 2004 (360-day deployment).
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- Beaufort Gyre region of the Arctic Ocean (specific mooring location C).