Upper-Ocean Variability in the Arctic's Amundsen and Nansen Basins

• Main Authors: Toole,John M, Krishfield,Richard A, Cole,Sylvia T
• Other Authors: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Woods Hole United States
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Physical and Dynamic Oceanography; Snow; Ice and Permafrost; arctic ocean; marginal ice zones; instrumentation; observation; remote sensing; velocity; oceanographic data; salinity; dynamics; OCEAN BASINS; temperature; turbulence; Air-Ice-Ocean Interaction; itp-v (Ice-Tethered Profiler with Velocity); ctd (conductivity-temperature-depth); ctd sensors; miz (marginal ice zones); Nansen basin; Amundsen Basin; nabos (Nansen and Amundsen Basin Observing System program); soda (Stratified Ocean Dynamics); Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Canada; amundsen basin; canada basin; Ice; Nansen Basin; permafrost
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/AD1033481; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=AD1033481

This grant funded the deployment of an Ice-Tethered Profiler with Velocity (ITP-V) instrument during the summer 2015 Nansen and Amundsen Basins Observational System cruise and analysis of data. The observations explore upper ocean variability and ice-ocean interaction in the Arctic's Amundsen and Nansen Basins as a complement to those made in the Canada Basin during the Marginal Ice Zone DRI program of 2014. The fieldwork leveraged other ITP deployments supported by the NSF Arctic Observing Network program. Analysis of the recovered data extend the findings of the MIZ program to the European sector of the Arctic with its markedly different thermohaline stratification.