Time series of ocean currents, temperature, salinity, and pressure from ocean moorings M1 and M2 in the northwestern Barents Sea

• Main Authors: Lundesgaard, Øyvind, Sundfjord, Arild
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Norwegian Polar Institute 2022
• Subjects: OCEANS; M1; M2; Nansen Legacy; Barents Sea; Kvitøya; Nordaustlandet; Moorings; Arctic Ocean; oceanography; EARTH SCIENCE; OCEAN TEMPERATURE; OCEAN CIRCULATION; OCEAN CURRENTS; OCEAN PRESSURE; WATER PRESSURE; SALINITY/DENSITY; SALINITY; CONDUCTIVITY; Arctic; Svalbard; Jan Mayen; North Atlantic; Norwegian Polar Institute
• Online Access: http://data.npolar.no/dataset/1a68b156-6f96-4824-8b10-40f07acbd632

Ocean data from two ocean moorings, M1 and M2. Both were Nansen Legacy gateway moorings deployed in the northern Barents Sea at potential "gateways" of ocean exchange with the north and east. The moorings were equipped with ADCPs measuring ocean currents, and temperature and conductivity-temperature-pressure sensors at various points along the mooring line: - Conductivity, temperature, and pressure from RBR Concerto and SBE16plus v2 instruments. - Temperature from RBR Solo instruments. - Near-surface ocean currents from upward-looking Nortek Signature 500 kHz ADCP instruments. - Water column currents from upward-looking RDI 150 kHz ADCP instruments. The current version of the dataset (V1) contains data from the two first deployments of M1 and M2, covering the period from October 2018 to September 2020. The document "M1_M2_data_processing_details_2018_2020.pdf" contains further details about the data and processing, as well as important information for users of the data. The Norwegian Polar Institute is the owner of all the instrumentation described in this document, and was responsible for data processing and documentation. Data are freely available under a CC-BY 4.0 license. ---------------------------------------- VERSION HISTORY: V1 (27-07-2022): Created dataset, uploaded raw and processed data for M1 and M2 (2018-2020) with documentation. ----------------------------------------