Mooring data of the Integrated Beaufort Observatory (iBO), a project from the Beaufort Regional Environmental Assessment (BREA) Marine Observatories in the Canadian Arctic.

• Main Authors: Amundsen Science, ArcticNet
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Canadian Cryospheric Information Network 2019
• Subjects: Arctic; ArcticNet; Beaufort Sea
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5884/13107; https://www.polardata.ca/pdcsearch/PDCSearch.jsp?doi_id=13107

The iBO project has supported the deployment of four moorings at key locations identified during the previous northern and southern Beaufort Sea monitoring initiatives (see CCIN xxxx ArcticNet-Industry 2009-2011 moorings and CCIN xxxx BREA 2011-2015 moorings). Since fall 2015, BRG and BR1 from BREA were redeployed along with two new moorings BRK and BR3. For every year of deployment, each mooring line was equipped with various oceanographic instruments attached at different depths from approximately 150 m to 750 m. Moored instruments include conductivity-temperature sensors, ice profiling sonars, particle analyzers, current meters, current profilers, and sediment traps. Datasets include currents, ice draft and velocities, water levels, temperature, salinity and turbidity, chlorophyll, suspended particulate size and concentration, and vertical carbon flux. Data collected were quality assessed/quality controlled (QA/QC) following the Climate and Forecast (CF http://cfconventions.org/) conventions, and building upon the open-source Integrated Marine Observatory System (IMOS) toolbox developed for Matlab© by the Australian Ocean Data Network (AODN). The four moorings provided ready to use quality data for the period 2015-2017. BR1 provided an extra year of data for 2017-2018, whereas BR3, BRG, and BRK are still at sea and being recovered (Fall 2019). The program ended officially in 2018; however, Amundsen Science and its collaborators maintain the observatory and monitoring capacity in the region with one mooring BRG pending new funding and interests for the program.