Bering Strait Mooring Data - summer 2005 to summer 2006

• Main Author: Rebecca Woodgate
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Arctic Data Center 2009
• Subjects: EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CIRCULATION > OCEAN CURRENTS; IN SITU/LABORATORY INSTRUMENTS > CURRENT/WIND METERS > CURRENT METERS; MOORING; STATION; POINT; HOURLY TO DAILY; oceans; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Chukchi Sea; Bering Strait; Chukchi
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.18739/A2PS8B

Insitu, year-round data from subsurface moorings deployed in the eastern (US) channel of the Bering Strait from summer 2005 - summer 2006 (3 moorings). Moorings recorded lower layer water velocity, temperature and salinity ~ hourly. Some instruments also recorded fluorescence and turbidity. One upward looking Acoustic Data Current Profiler (ADCP) recorded water velocity at different levels in the east of the channel (i.e., in the Alaskan Coastal Current) and some measure of ice velocity and ice thickness. For full details, see Readme file below. Data are available via our website (Data Access link below) and from National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) (related data link below). These deployments are part of 1-year NSF grant, PI R. Woodgate. Related data sets include concurrent mooring measurements in the other channel of the strait, various conductivity temperature density (CTD) data and other years of Bering Strait moorings, deployed almost continuously since 1990. For an overview, see http://psc.apl.washington.edu/BeringStrait.html, and/or search this archive or NODC. Bering Strait data are standardly submitted to NODC for permanent archiving.