Physical oceanographic mooring data (temperature, salinity, velocity including ADCP ice tracking) collected from Bering Strait Moorings A2, A3, A4 in Bering Strait from 2014-07-02 to 2015-07-05 (NCEI Accession 0155760)

• Main Author: Rebecca Woodgate
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: NOAA NCEI Environmental Data Archive 2016
• Subjects: DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NODC > National Oceanographic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce; DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI > National Centers for Environmental Information, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce; 0155760; 155760; CURRENT SPEED - EAST/WEST COMPONENT (U); CURRENT SPEED - NORTH/SOUTH COMPONENT (V); CURRENT SPEED - UP/DOWN COMPONENT (W); ICE - MOVEMENT - DIRECTION; ICE - MOVEMENT - SPEED; SALINITY; WATER TEMPERATURE; ADCP; CTD; current meter; current measurements; in situ; moored buoy; physical; time series; MOORINGS; University of Washington; University of Washington; Applied Physics Laboratory; Shelf Basin Interaction Project (SBI); Bering Sea; oceanography; SBI > Western Arctic Shelf Basin Interactions; EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CIRCULATION > OCEAN CURRENTS; EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN TEMPERATURE > WATER TEMPERATURE; EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SALINITY/DENSITY > SALINITY; EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SEA ICE > SEA ICE MOTION; ADCP > Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler; CTD > Conductivity, Temperature, Depth; CURRENT METERS; OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN > BERING SEA; Arctic; Bering Strait; Pacific; RUSALCA; Sea ice; Western Arctic Shelf-Basin Interactions; Alaska
• Online Access: https://search.dataone.org/view/{4CF6C2FF-C4EF-402B-8B09-C74088FEA9BC}

This is an archive of data from moorings deployed in Bering Strait from summer 2014 to summer 2015. Mooring deployments were funded by the NSF-Arctic Observing Network award PLR-1304052 (PI: Woodgate, Heimbach and Nguyen), in collaboration with the NOAA RUSALCA (Russian-US Long Term Census of the Arctic) program. For 2014 to 2015, a total of three moorings were deployed: two moorings (A2 and A4) in the US channel of the strait, and one mooring (A3) at a site just north of the strait. Sites A2, and A3 were established in 1990. A2 and A3 have been occupied almost continuously (all years except 96-97) since then. Site A4 was established in 2001. Mooring location A2 is in the middle of the eastern (Alaskan side) channel. Mooring location A3 is just north of the strait, immediately east of the Russian-US EEZ (Exclusive Economic Zone) line. Experience has shown that site A3 samples both eastern and western channel water. Mooring location A4 is close to the Alaskan coast and allows measurement of the Alaska Coastal Current.