Ocean microstructure measurements using an MSS profiler during the Nansen Legacy cruise, KH2021702, February 2021. ...

• Main Author: Fer, Ilker
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: University of Bergen 2023
• Subjects: Barents Sea; Svalbard
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.21335/nmdc-1939445412; http://metadata.nmdc.no/metadata-api/landingpage/1a5407acf9bacf7edea36b344c03b631

As a part of the Nansen Legacy project, ocean microstructure data were collected using an MSS (Microstructure Sensor Profiler, Sea&Sun Technology, Germany) profiler during the Nansen Legacy cruise, KH2021702 in February 2021. The goal was to conduct ocean mixing and water transformation process studies in the Barents Sea Polar Front region east of Svalbard, in the northern Barents Sea. During the cruise, we obtained 181 microstructure profiles (23 of which were obtained from a drifting ice floe). Nine casts were aborted and not processed. Out of the processed 172 files, 181 sections were extracted and supplied in the grouped NC files (i.e., one profile cast can have multiple sections of profiles interrupted, for example, by a gap when the instrument did not fall freely; it is a coincidence that the number of sections matches the number of attempted casts). Here we provide 172 NetCDF (NC) files (one NC file per instrument's native file) compressed in one folder, as well as 2 NC files, one for profiles of ...