Current velocity measurements from upward-looking ADCP at Qikiqtaruk during the Yukon Coast 2015 expedition of the AWI

The dataset compiles water current velocities and direction measured by a platform-based upward looking Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler. Data was acquired in July/August 2015 during the Yukon Coast 2015 expedition to the Herschel Island – Qikiqtaruk coastal observatory, conducted by the Alfred Weg...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Gimsa, Justus, Tanski, George, Irrgang, Anna Maria, Fritz, Michael, Lantuit, Hugues, Radosavljevic, Boris
Format: Dataset
Language:English
Published: PANGAEA 2021
Subjects:
Acoustic Current Doppler Profiler
Acoustic Doppler Current Profiling (ADCP)
RDI Workhorse Sentinel
600 kHz
ADCP
ADCP data
Arctic Ocean
Arctic Shelf
AWI_Perma
AWI Arctic Land Expedition
Beaufort Sea
CA-Land_2015_YukonCoast
Coastal erosion
currents
current velocity
east-west
north-south
Date/Time local
Height above sea floor/altitude
Herschel Island
hydrodynamics
Nearshore zone
permafrost
Permafrost Research
Qikiqtaruk
YC_2015_ADCP
Yukon_Coast_2015
Yukon Coast
Arctic
Yukon
Herschel
Online Access:https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.931914
https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.931914
Description
Summary:The dataset compiles water current velocities and direction measured by a platform-based upward looking Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler. Data was acquired in July/August 2015 during the Yukon Coast 2015 expedition to the Herschel Island – Qikiqtaruk coastal observatory, conducted by the Alfred Wegener Institute in Potsdam, Germany. Goal of this project was to find drivers that control nearshore currents and to map their spatio-temporal variation. These currents might play an important role in the transport process of sediments and organic matter in the nearshore zone of the Arctic Ocean. The sediments mainly originate from the rapidly eroding permafrost coasts. The columns of this data file include Date/Time, height above the seafloor of the respective measurement cell (bin), current velocity in east-west direction and current velocity in north-south direction.

Similar Items