Mooring C in the Beaufort Gyre collected oceanographic and sea ice data over a 375-day deployment from 2005 to 2006. The dataset includes 17,995 bottom pressure recorder samples, 333 profiler casts, and over 16 million upward-looking sonar samples. It was collected by the Beaufort Gyre Exploration Project and last updated in 2007.
Use Cases
- Analyze temporal trends in ice draft from 16,186,499 upward-looking sonar samples to study sea ice thickness variability.
- Correlate bottom pressure, temperature, and salinity from 17,995 samples to infer water mass properties and density structure.
- Use 333 profiler profiles of pressure, temperature, salinity, and horizontal velocity to characterize vertical ocean structure and currents.
- Integrate ice draft data with concurrent oceanographic measurements to model ice-ocean heat and momentum exchange.
Strengths
- High-resolution time series with over 16 million ice draft samples from the upward-looking sonar.
- Multi-instrument deployment providing concurrent measurements of pressure, temperature, salinity, and velocity over 375 days.
- 333 vertical profiles from a moored profiler capture the water column's temporal evolution.
Limitations
- Data is temporally stale, with the last update in 2007 and collection ending in 2006.
- Geographic coverage is limited to a single mooring location in the Beaufort Gyre.
- Specific data formats, column definitions, and license terms are unknown.
Provenance
- Source
- Beaufort Gyre Exploration Project, organization listed as SCIOPS, accessed via NASA Earthdata.
- Collection Method
- Data gathered by an instrumented oceanographic mooring equipped with a bottom pressure recorder, McLane Moored Profiler, and upward-looking sonar.
- Time Range
- 2005-2006 (375-day deployment).
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- Beaufort Gyre region of the Arctic Ocean (specific mooring location C).