MJES: Oceanographic Data from the Japan/East Sea Shelf Experiment

Japan/East Sea data collected during Shelf Experiment 1 for the Office of Naval Research NICOP program. The 429.7 MB repository includes CTD, Lowered ADCP, ship ADCP, and microstructure shear data from station S1, plus TRBM mooring data from locations M1, M2, and M3. Author Kyung-il Chang published the data on figshare under a CC-BY-4.0 license, with a final report referenced in Chang et al. (2023).

Use Cases

• Analyzing water column structure and mixing based on CTD data mentioned in the description
• Studying current profiles and velocities based on Lowered ADCP and ship ADCP data
• Investigating small-scale turbulence and shear based on microstructure data
• Examining time-series observations from moorings at three locations M1, M2, and M3

Strengths

• Includes multiple complementary oceanographic instrument types (CTD, ADCP, microstructure)
• Data is consolidated from a specific field experiment (Shelf Exp. 1) with a referenced final report
• Released under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license for reuse

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• Data appears focused on a single station (S1) and three mooring points, limiting spatial coverage

Provenance

Source

Office of Naval Research (ONR) Naval International Cooperative Opportunities in Science and Technology Program (NICOP)

Collection Method

Field experiment data collection using CTD, ADCP, and microstructure profilers, plus moorings.

Time Range

Period of Shelf Exp. 1 (specific dates not provided)

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-14 07:01:38; freshness should be verified

Geography

Japan/East Sea, specifically station S1 and mooring locations M1, M2, M3