Circulation in the Freshwater Switchyard of the Arctic Ocean: University of Washington CTD Profile Data

• Main Author: Michael Steele
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Arctic Data Center
• Subjects: Seawater Sampling; Oceanography; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Ellesmere Island; North Pole; Nares; Freshwater Switchyard of the Arctic Ocean; Nares strait; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5065/D63N21H9

The Freshwater Switchyard of the Arctic Ocean (FSAO) project is a program to study freshwater circulation (sea ice and upper ocean) in the "freshwater switchyard" between Alert (Ellesmere Island) and the North Pole, through a series of annual springtime hydrographic surveys. An aircraft ba...