Wolstenholme Fjord CTD Survey April 2017

• Main Author: Andreas Muenchow
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Arctic Data Center 2017
• Subjects: Physical Oceanography; Greenland; Moltke; Rasmussen; Thule Air Base; Wolstenholme Fjord; Sea ice; Thule Air; Thule; Wolstenholme fjord
• Online Access: https://search.dataone.org/view/arctic-data.13891.1

Ocean water properties in Wolstenholme Fjord adjacent to Thule Air Base (TAB) in Greenland were profiled at 68 discrete stations in April 2017. The fjord was covered by land-fast sea ice and thus provided a stable platform from which to test, deploy, and recover a range of oceanographic and acoustic sensor systems via snowmobiles during day-light hours in April when air temperatures are generally above -25°C. We collected about 4-7 stations per section at ~10 sections that crossed bathymetric features such as entrance channels, basins, and sills. Sections with 1-2 km station spacing were also placed across Moltke, Knud Rasmussen, and Chamberlin Glaciers.