Bering Strait Conductivity, Temperature, and Depth (CTD) Data 2016

• Main Author: Woodgate, Rebecca
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: NSF Arctic Data Center 2021
• Subjects: Hydrographic CTD Data from the Bering Strait and Southern Chukchi Sea; oceanography; profile; physical; in situ; derived products; EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CHEMISTRY > OXYGEN; EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN OPTICS > FLUORESCENCE; EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN OPTICS > TURBIDITY; EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN TEMPERATURE > WATER TEMPERATURE; EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SALINITY/DENSITY > CONDUCTIVITY; EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SALINITY/DENSITY > DENSITY; EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SALINITY/DENSITY > SALINITY; OCEAN > ARCTIC OCEAN > CHUKCHI SEA; OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN > BERING SEA; AON > Arctic Observing Network; CTD > Conductivity, Temperature, Depth; DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI > National Centers for Environmental Information, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce; DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NODC > National Oceanographic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Bering Sea; Bering Strait; Chukchi Sea; Pacific; Chukchi; Nome; Polar Science Center; RUSALCA; Alaska
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.18739/a23j3923t; https://arcticdata.io/catalog/view/doi:10.18739/A23J3923T

This Arctic Observing Network (AON) project will support a comprehensive observationally-based measurement scheme for the Bering Strait, which will combine in situ observations with traditional knowledge from the Bering Strait communities and results from a 4 kilometer (km) resolution ice-ocean model, ECCO2 (Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean phase II). Temperature, salinity and velocity data from the Bering Strait and data products of oceanic fluxes will be measured to meet the needs of numerous scientific, climate and industrial (e.g., oil/gas exploration, shipping) studies in the region. This is an archive of Conductivity, Temperature, and Depth (CTD) data from the 2016 Bering Strait mooring cruise. The cruise was funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF)-Arctic Observing Network grants: - Division of Polar Programs (PLR)-1304052 (Principal Investigators (PIs): Woodgate, Heimbach and Nguyen) The data are from a ~ 9 day cruise - on the US vessel Norseman II - from 7th-15th July 2016 - sailing from and to Nome, Alaska, United States of America (USA) - to the Bering Strait and southern Chukchi Sea. The cruise was also to service oceanographic moorings in the strait and those data are archived separately. A total of 277 casts were taken and are included in this archive. No water samples were taken during this cruise. Stations were taken in United States (US) waters near mooring locations and on sections in the Bering Strait and southern Chukchi Sea. See cruise report for map, station locations, calibration, and processing details. The data are taken using an SBE911p system, recording - pressure - temperature (dual system) - conductivity (dual system) - oxygen (dual system) - fluorescence - turbidity. For an overview of previous and on-going Bering Strait mooring work, please see http://psc.apl.washington.edu/BeringStrait.html. For details of the measurements and their interpretation, please see: Woodgate, R.A., K.M.Stafford and F.G.Prahl (2015) A synthesis of year-round interdisciplinary mooring measurements in the Bering Strait (1990-2014) and the Russian-American Long-term Census of the Arctic (RUSALCA) years (2004-2011), Oceanography 28(3):46-67, doi:10.5670/oceanog.2015.57 Please cite that reference for the data. For queries, please contact: Rebecca Woodgate [e-mail] [phone] Polar Science Center, Applied Physics Lab, University of Washington 1013 NE 40th, Seattle, Washington (WA) 98105-6698 USA