AON: Observing the Evolving Central Arctic Ocean with Ice-Tethered Profilers

• Main Author: Richard Krishfield
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Arctic Data Center 2015
• Subjects: AON; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; AON: Observing the Evolving Central Arctic Ocean with Ice-Tethered Profilers; Climate change; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://search.dataone.org/view/urn:uuid:3dfe0b20-6024-4cda-bd72-1478d057a933

This awards sustains sampling of the upper Arctic Ocean water properties through all seasons using Ice-Tethered Profiler (ITP) instruments. Studies conducted over the last decade indicate that the Arctic is both a sensitive indicator of climate change and an active driver of climate variability. As...