A 343-day deployment in the Beaufort Gyre from 2006 to 2007 collected oceanographic and sea ice data. The mooring was equipped with a bottom pressure recorder, a moored profiler, and an upward-looking sonar. The dataset was created by the SCIOPS organization and published in 2008.
Use Cases
- Analyze temporal trends in ice draft from 14,812,381 sonar samples to study sea ice thickness variability.
- Correlate bottom pressure, temperature, and salinity records (16,460 samples) with regional freshwater storage estimates.
- Examine vertical ocean structure using 306 profiles of pressure, temperature, salinity, and horizontal velocity from the moored profiler.
- Investigate relationships between ice draft from the sonar and near-surface ocean properties like temperature and salinity.
Strengths
- High-resolution ice draft data from over 14.8 million sonar samples.
- Multi-instrument deployment providing 306 full water column profiles over 343 days.
- Concurrent measurements of physical parameters (pressure, temperature, salinity, velocity) from complementary sensors.
Limitations
- Data is temporally limited to a single annual cycle from 2006-2007.
- Spatial coverage is limited to a single point location from Mooring C.
- Sample data and specific column definitions are unavailable for review.
Provenance
- Source
- SCIOPS via NASA Earthdata.
- Collection Method
- Data collected from an instrumented oceanographic mooring deployed in the Beaufort Gyre.
- Time Range
- 2006-2007 (343-day deployment).
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- Beaufort Gyre region of the Arctic Ocean.