Sermilik Fjord Oceanographic Mooring Data from 2010-2011

August 2010 to August 2011 data from five instrumented moorings deployed in Sermilik Fjord, East Greenland. The dataset captures temperature, conductivity, and water current measurements at depths ranging from 13 to 600 meters across fjord, shelf, and glacier-proximal locations. It is provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Use Cases

• Analyzing seasonal temperature and salinity stratification using CTD (Microcat) conductivity and temperature data.
• Modeling subglacial discharge plumes by correlating near-glacier (SF3) temperature with mid-fjord current (Aquadopp) measurements.
• Investigating shelf-fjord exchange processes using current meter data from the outer shelf mooring CM5.
• Calibrating regional ocean models with in-situ time-series data from a coordinated multi-mooring array.
• Studying the vertical structure of water properties across a depth transect from 13m to 600m.

Strengths

• Data covers a full annual cycle from August 2010 to August 2011.
• Instruments were deployed at five strategic locations providing spatial coverage from glacier front to continental shelf.
• Multiple sensor types (Microcat CTDs, Aquadopp current meters, TidbiT loggers) capture complementary physical variables.

Limitations

• Exact row count, file size, and column names are not provided by any source.
• Sources conflict on the last updated date: datagov lists 2026-03-05, while nasa_earthdata lists 2011-08 -20.
• License information is not specified.

Provenance

Source

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce

Collection Method

Data collected from five instrumented moorings (CM1-SF5, CM2-SF6, CM5, SF3, SF4) deployed in the fjord.

Time Range

2010-08 to 2011-08

Freshness

2026-03 05 22:57:16.196177 (datagov)

Geography

Sermilik Fjord, East Greenland, Ammassalik district near Tasiilaq.