Mooring C in the Beaufort Gyre collected oceanographic data for 357 days during 2007-2008. The deployment included a bottom pressure recorder, a moored profiler, and an upward-looking sonar. The dataset was collected by the SCIOPS organization and published in 2009.
Use Cases
- Analyze ice draft time series from the upward-looking sonar to study seasonal sea ice thickness variability.
- Correlate bottom pressure recorder measurements with temperature and salinity to infer water mass properties and density changes.
- Use the 13 profiles from the McLane Moored Profiler to examine vertical structure of horizontal velocity, temperature, and salinity.
- Calculate freshwater content and ocean heat storage from the continuous temperature and salinity records over the 357-day period.
Strengths
- Data collection spanned 357 consecutive days, providing continuous temporal coverage.
- Upward-looking sonar provided over 15.4 million samples of ice draft, pressure, and temperature.
- Instrument suite captured complementary data types: point measurements, vertical profiles, and high-frequency sonar.
Limitations
- Data is from a single mooring location, limiting spatial representativeness.
- The dataset is from 2007-2008 and may not reflect current Arctic conditions.
- Sample data and column definitions are unavailable, complicating initial analysis.
Provenance
- Source
- SCIOPS organization via NASA Earthdata.
- Collection Method
- In-situ measurements from a moored oceanographic platform equipped with a bottom pressure recorder, McLane Moored Profiler, and upward-looking sonar.
- Time Range
- 2007-2008 (357-day deployment).
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- Beaufort Gyre region of the Arctic Ocean (specific mooring location C).