Collection and Processing of Shipboard ADCP Velocities from the Barents Sea Polar Front Experiment

• Main Authors: Harris, Carolyn L., Plueddemann, Albert J., Bourke, Robert H., Stone, Maria D., Pawlowicz, Richard A.
• Other Authors: WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION MA
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1995
• Subjects: Physical and Dynamic Oceanography; Acoustic Detection and Detectors; *FRONTS(OCEANOGRAPHY); ACOUSTIC WAVES; GRIDS; PROFILES; SAMPLING; SHIPBOARD; INSTRUMENTATION; TOMOGRAPHY; OSCILLATION; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS; FLOWMETERS; ACOUSTIC FIELDS; DOPPLER EFFECT; OCEAN TIDES; MOORING; OCEANOGRAPHY; STEADY FLOW; ARCTIC OCEAN; ACOUSTIC TIMOGRAPHY; ADCP(ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENT PROFILERS); SEMIDIURNAL VARIATIONS; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Barents Sea; Bear Island; Spitsbergen Bank; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA298021; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA298021

The Barents Sea Polar Front Experiment was a combined physical oceanography and acoustic tomography field study which took place from 6-26 August 1992. Both shipboard and moored data were collected in a 80 x 70 km experimental region on the south flank of Spitsbergen Bank about 60 km east of Bear Is...