Currents, Temperature, Salinity, and Sea Ice measurements from moorings in Barrow Canyon, Chukchi Sea, 2010-2015 (NCEI Accession 0160090)

• Main Author: Thomas Weingartner
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: NOAA NCEI Environmental Data Archive 2017
• 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; 0160090; 160090; CURRENT SPEED - EAST/WEST COMPONENT (U); CURRENT SPEED - NORTH/SOUTH COMPONENT (V); HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; ICE - COVERAGE; ICE - MOVEMENT - SPEED; SALINITY; WATER TEMPERATURE; ADCP; CTD - moored CTD; in situ; Chukchi Sea - NW Coast of Alaska; oceanography; EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CIRCULATION > OCEAN CURRENTS; EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN PRESSURE > WATER PRESSURE; EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN TEMPERATURE > WATER TEMPERATURE; EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SALINITY/DENSITY > SALINITY; EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SEA ICE > ICE EXTENT; EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SEA ICE > SEA ICE MOTION; ADCP > Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler; CTD > Conductivity, Temperature, Depth; OCEAN > ARCTIC OCEAN > CHUKCHI SEA; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Chukchi Sea; Barrow Canyon; Barrow; Chukchi; Sea ice; Alaska
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From August 2010 – September 2012, six moorings (BC1 inshore to BC6 offshore), spaced ~13 km apart, spanned the head of Barrow Canyon, Chukchi Sea, Alaska. Each mooring contained an upward looking 300 or 600 kHz Teledyne ADCP and a temperature/conductivity/pressure (T/C/P) recorder (Seabird SBE-37 or SBE-19). Moorings BC-2 through BC-5 included bottom tracking for measuring ice keel depths and ice drift. Bottom-tracking was inactive on BC-1 and BC-6 because these included directional wave firmware. The T/C/P and ADCP were housed in a float situated ~4 m above bottom. BC1, the mooring nearest to the coast, was deployed in a water depth of 31 m with its instruments mounted 1-m above the bottom in a SeaSpider frame. The compact mooring design minimized damage from nearshore ice keels that can exceed 25 m depth. After recovering the array in 2012, we deployed a single mooring (BC2) in 3 succeeding years.