Mooring Observations from the Atlantic Water Inflow Experiment (ATWAIN) at 81.63165°N and 30.6589°E from September 21, 2012 through September 19, 2013

• Main Author: Leah McRaven
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Arctic Data Center 2018
• Subjects: Physical Oceanography; Mooring Observations; Atlantic Water Inflow Experiment; ATWAIN; A-TWAIN; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Svalbard; Norway; Bergen; Norwegian Polar Institute; UNIS; Troms
• Online Access: https://search.dataone.org/view/urn:uuid:b3c96c50-ab16-440f-992f-470d019cab0b

The overall goal of this study is to obtain a quantitative description of the water mass composition, kinematics, and dynamics of the Atlantic water boundary current in the eastern Arctic Ocean over an annual cycle, in order to elucidate the role of the current in regulating the Arctic system. The project is part of a larger cooperative program entitled the Atlantic Water Inflow Experiment (ATWAIN), which is an international collaboration between six institutions: The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), USA; the Institute for Marine Research in Bergen, Norway (IMR); the Norwegian Polar Institute (NPI); the University of Svalbard (UNIS); the University of Troms&#248 (UT); and the Institute of Oceanology Polish Academy of Sciences (IOPAS). Together, six moorings were deployed across the Atlantic water (AW) boundary current near 30E for a one-year period, from September 2012 to September 2013. WHOI provided the four offshore moorings in the array.