Western Arctic Shelf-Basin Interactions Experiment : processing and calibration of moored profiler data from the Beaufort Shelf Edge mooring array

• Main Authors: Fratantoni, Paula S., Zimmermann, Sarah, Pickart, Robert S., Swartz, Marshall
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution 2006
• Subjects: Moored profiler calibration; Arctic shelf-basin interactions program; Arctic; Beaufort Shelf; Beaufort Sea; Western Arctic Shelf-Basin Interactions
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/1912/1429

A high-resolution mooring array was deployed at the edge of the continental shelf in the Beaufort Sea as a part of the western Arctic Shelf-Basin Interactions Program, a multidisciplinary experiment that was designed to study the communication between the continental shelf and interior basin. Eight moorings were positioned along a section crossing the shelfbreak and upper slope in two consecutive year-long deployments, spanning the period August 2002 through September 2004. Seven of the eight moorings housed conductivity/temperature/depth moored profilers that sampled 2-4 times per day, amassing close to 3000 profiles during the two-year study period. This report documents the collection, calibration, and quality control of this moored profiler data. Funding was provided by the Office of Naval Research under grant No. N00014-02-1-0317.