Microcat, Aquadopp, and ADCP data from the 2016-2018 Labrador Sea eastern boundary mooring array as part of the Overturning in the Subpolar North Atlantic Program (OSNAP)

Pacini, Astrid, et al. (2020). Mean conditions and seasonality of the West Greenland Boundary Current System near Cape Farewell. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 50(10), 1-61. 10.1175/JPO-D-20-0086.1 The Overturning of the Subpolar North Atlantic Program (OSNAP) is an effort to determine the streng...

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Main Author: Pickart, Robert S.
Other Authors: College of Sciences, School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Format: Dataset
Language:unknown
Published: Georgia Institute of Technology 2020
Subjects:
Ocean observing system
Overturning of the Subpolar North Atlantic Program
Canada
Greenland
Irminger Sea
Cape Farewell
Iceland
Labrador Sea
North Atlantic
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1853/63790
https://doi.org/10.35090/fz80-6c32
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Summary:Pacini, Astrid, et al. (2020). Mean conditions and seasonality of the West Greenland Boundary Current System near Cape Farewell. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 50(10), 1-61. 10.1175/JPO-D-20-0086.1 The Overturning of the Subpolar North Atlantic Program (OSNAP) is an effort to determine the strength of the meridional overturning circulation and associated heat and freshwater fluxes in the subpolar North Atlantic. It is a collaborative program with scientists from the U.S., U.K., Netherlands, Germany, France, Canada, and China. Together, moorings were deployed across the boundaries of the Labrador Sea, Irminger Sea, Iceland Basin, and eastern subpolar North Atlantic. The OSNAP West array consists of eight moorings spanning from the west Greenland shelf to the base of the continental slope. The three shelf moorings are bottom tripods, while the five offshore moorings are tall moorings. The tripod moorings contained a weak-link extension to obtain hydrographic measurements 50 m below the surface. Velocity was measured using a combination of Aquadopps and acoustic Doppler current profilers (ADCPs), and the pressure, temperature, and salinity were measured using MicroCATs. The time period of the first deployment of the array was August 2016 to August 2018. The sampling interval was 30 min for the Aquadopps, 1 hour for the ADCPs, and 15 min for the MicroCATs. All of the data have been calibrated, processed, and quality controlled. National Science Foundation OCE-1259618 National Science Foundation OCE-1756361

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