Circulation in the Freshwater Switchyard of the Arctic Ocean: University of Washington CTD Profile Data, Version 1.0

• Main Author: Steele, M.
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory 2010
• Subjects: Arctic; Oceanography; FOS Earth and related environmental sciences; Seawater Sampling; ARCSS; NSF Arctic System Science; Arctic Ocean; Ellesmere Island; Nares; North Pole; Freshwater Switchyard of the Arctic Ocean; Nares strait; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5065/d63n21h9; https://arcticdata.io/catalog/#view/doi: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...