Autonomous underwater vehicle PAUL observations during POLARSTERN cruise PS99.2

• Main Authors: Tippenhauer, Sandra, Wulff, Thorben, Lehmenhecker, Sascha, Hagemann, Jonas
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2018
• Subjects: ARK-XXX/1.2; Autonomous underwater vehicle; AUV; AUV ID 038; AWI_PhyOce; FRAM; FRontiers in Arctic marine Monitoring; Hausgarten; Long-term Investigation at AWI-Hausgarten off Svalbard; North Greenland Sea; Physical Oceanography @ AWI; Polarstern; PS99/075-1; PS99.2; Arctic; Greenland; Svalbard; Fram Strait; Greenland Sea; North Greenland
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.896071; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.896071

AWI's autonomous underwater vehicle PAUL – Polar Autonomous Underwater Laboratory (AUV Bluefin 21) was deployed during R/V Polarstern cruise PS99.2 in central Fram Strait. The scientific payload included a pressure sensor (Paroscientific Inc.), a pumped CTD (SBE 49 FastCAT), a dissolved oxygen sensor (SBE 43), a nitrate sensor (SBE Deep SUNA), two fluorometers for chlorophyll a and colored dissolved organic matter (Turner Design C7-c and C7-u), an upward looking sensor for photosynthetically active radiation (PAR, Satlantic PAR-log-s), shear and temperature microstructure profiler (MSP) from Rockland Scientific Inc., and an 300 kHz RDI acoustic Doppler current profiler (AADCP, AUV based Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler). Additionally the vehicle carried a water sample collector to gather a maximum number of 22 samples with a volume of 220 ml each. The AUV conducted high resolution profiles between the surface and 50 m water depth. Between the profiles the AUV was diving along constant depth for a few hundred meters to allow for ADCP measurements of the water column above. A small CTD SBE 19plus was deployed manually from a Zodiac driving in parallel to the AUV track.