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

• 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

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.