Entry_ID: ARCSS165
Entry_Title: Mooring and Drifting Buoy Data:  Beaufort Gyre Freshwater Experiment, 2003
Group: Data_Set_Citation
   Dataset_Creator: Andrey Proshutinsky
   Dataset_Title: Mooring and Drifting Buoy Data:  Beaufort Gyre Freshwater Experiment, 2003
   Dataset_Release_Date: 2006-01-22
   Dataset_Release_Place: Boulder, Colorado USA
   Dataset_Publisher: NSIDC: National Snow and Ice Data Center
   Online_Resource: http://nsidc.org/data/arcss165.html
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Group: Personnel
   Role: Investigator
   First_Name: Andrey
   Last_Name: Proshutinsky
   Group: Contact_Address
      Address: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
      Address: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution 
      Address: Mail Stop 29
      City: Woods Hole
      Province_or_State: MA
      Postal_Code: 02543
      Country: USA
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Group: Personnel
   Role: Investigator
   First_Name: Richard
   Last_Name: Krishfield
   Email: rkrishfield@whoi.edu
   Phone: 1 508 289-2849 
   Group: Contact_Address
      Address: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
      Address: MS 23
      City: Woods Hole
      Province_or_State: Maryland
      Postal_Code: 02543
      Country: USA
   End_Group
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Group: Personnel
   Role: Technical Contact
   First_Name: NSIDC
   Last_Name: User Services
   Email: nsidc@nsidc.org
   Phone: 1 303 492-6199 x
   Fax: 1 303  492-2468 x
   Group: Contact_Address
      Address: National Snow and Ice Data Center
      Address: CIRES, 449 UCB
      Address: University of Colorado
      City: Boulder
      Province_or_State: CO
      Postal_Code: 80309-0449
      Country: USA
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Group: Parameters
   Category: EARTH SCIENCE
   Topic: Cryosphere
   Term: Sea Ice
   Variable_Level_1: Ice Depth/Thickness
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Group: Parameters
   Category: EARTH SCIENCE
   Topic: Oceans
   Term: Ocean Circulation
   Variable_Level_1: Ocean Currents
   Detailed_Variable: Velocity Profiles
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Group: Parameters
   Category: EARTH SCIENCE
   Topic: Oceans
   Term: Ocean Pressure
   Variable_Level_1: Water Pressure
   Detailed_Variable: Bottom Pressure
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Group: Parameters
   Category: EARTH SCIENCE
   Topic: Oceans
   Term: Ocean Temperature
   Variable_Level_1: Sea Surface Temperature
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Group: Parameters
   Category: EARTH SCIENCE
   Topic: Oceans
   Term: Ocean Temperature
   Variable_Level_1: Water Temperature
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Group: Parameters
   Category: EARTH SCIENCE
   Topic: Oceans
   Term: Salinity/Density
   Variable_Level_1: Salinity
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Group: Parameters
   Category: EARTH SCIENCE
   Topic: Oceans
   Term: Sea Ice
   Variable_Level_1: Ice Depth/Thickness
   Detailed_Variable: Ice Draft
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ISO_Topic_Category: Climatology/Meteorology/Atmosphere
ISO_Topic_Category: Oceans
Keyword: ARCSS165
Keyword: ARCSS Data Coordination Center
Keyword: Arctic Freshwater Initiative
Keyword: Arctic Ocean
Keyword: Beaufort Gyre Freshwater Experiment
Keyword: Beaufort Sea
Keyword: Conductivity
Keyword: Drifting Buoys
Keyword: Moored Buoy
Keyword: Moored Upward Looking Sonar
Keyword: Ocean Water Salinity
Keyword: Ocean Water Temperature
Keyword: OPP-0230184
Keyword: Sea Ice Draft
Keyword: Sea Surface Temperatures
Keyword: Temperature Profiles
Keyword: Time Series
Keyword: Velocity Measurements
Keyword: Water Pressure
Sensor_Name: ARGOS > ARGOS Data Collection and Position Location System
Sensor_Name: BOTTOM PRESSURE GAUGES
Sensor_Name: CONDUCTIVITY METERS
Sensor_Name: PROFILERS
Sensor_Name: TEMPERATURE SENSORS
Sensor_Name: UPWARD LOOKING SONAR
Source_Name: BUOYS
Source_Name: MOORINGS
Group: Temporal_Coverage
   Start_Date: 2003-08-01
   Stop_Date: 2004-08-31
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Data_Set_Progress: complete
Group: Spatial_Coverage
   Southernmost_Latitude: 75
   Northernmost_Latitude: 78
   Westernmost_Longitude: -150
   Easternmost_Longitude: -140
   Minimum_Depth: 50 meters
   Maximum_Depth: 3800 meters
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Group: Location
   Location_Category: OCEAN
   Location_Type: ARCTIC OCEAN
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Group: Location
   Location_Category: OCEAN
   Location_Type: ARCTIC OCEAN
   Location_Subregion1: BEAUFORT SEA
   Detailed_Location: BEAUFORT GYRE
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Group: Data_Resolution
   Temporal_Resolution: 17:00:00
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Data_Set_Language: English
Originating_Center: ARCSS/ADCC
Group: Data_Center
   Data_Center_Name: NSIDC_ARCSS > NSIDC Arctic System Science Data Coordination Center
   Data_Center_URL: http://nsidc.org/arcss/
   Group: Personnel
      Role: Data Center Contact
      First_Name: NSIDC ARCSS
      Last_Name: User Services
      Email: nsidc@nsidc.org
      Phone: 1 303 492-6199 
      Fax: 1 303  492-2468 
      Group: Contact_Address
         Address: National Snow and Ice Data Center
         Address: CIRES, 449 UCB
         Address: University of Colorado
         City: Boulder
         Province_or_State: CO
         Postal_Code: 80309-0449
         Country: USA
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   End_Group
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Group: Distribution
   Distribution_Media: Online (HTTP)
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Group: Distribution
   Distribution_Media: FTP
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Group: Reference

   Kemp, J., K. Newhall, W. Ostrom, R. Krishfield, and A. Proshutinsky. 2005. The 
   Beaufort Gyre Observing System 2004: Mooring Recovery and Deployment 
   Operations in Pack Ice.  WHOI Technical Report WHOI-2005-5.  

   Ostrom, W., J. Kemp, R. Krishfield, and A. Proshutinsky. 2004.  Beaufort Gyre 
   Freshwater Experiment: Deployment Operations and Technology in 2003. WHOI 
   Technical Report WHOI-2004-1. 

   Proshutinsky, A., R. H. Bourke, and F. A. McLaughlin. 2002.  The role of the 
   Beaufort Gyre in Arctic climate variability: Seasonal to decadal climate 
   scales.  Geophysical Research Letters Vol. 29 No. 23. 

   Proshutinsky, A., J. Yang, R. Krishfield, R. Gerdes, M. Karcher, F. Kauker, C. 
   Koeberle, S. Hakkinen, W. Hibler, D. Holland, M. Maqueda, G. Holloway, E. 
   Hunke, W. Maslowski, M. Steele, and J. Zhang. 2005.  Arctic Ocean Study: 
   Synthesis of Model Results and Observations. EOS 86(40), 368-371.

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Group: Summary

   In the summer of 2003, investigators established an observational program to 
   measure the freshwater content (in sea ice and in the ocean) of freshwater 
   fluxes in the Beaufort Gyre using moorings and drifting buoys. They collected 
   temperature time series, salinity, current, sea ice draft, and bottom pressure 
   measurements.  

   Investigators used conventional mooring systems containing a McLane Moored 
   Profiler (MMP) to sample currents and hydrographic data from 50 m to 2050 m 
   with 17-hour time intervals. They measured sea ice draft with an ASL 
   Environmental Sciences 420 kHz upward-looking sonar (ULS).  Using a high 
   accuracy bottom pressure recorder (BPR), they measured sea level height 
   variability and near-bottom seawater temperatures.  Each mooring consisted of 
   a surface floatation package at 50 m depth, which housed the ULS, a mooring 
   cable containing the MMP, and dual acoustic releases and a BPR located 
   immediately above the anchor. 

   Investigators also deployed several ice-tethered beacons to provide concurrent 
   temperature and salinity data at several discrete depths in the uppermost 40 
   m.  The instruments suspended three SeaBird MicroCat C/T recorders and data 
   were broadcast via the Argos data collection relay system, which also provided 
   the drifter location.

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Group: Related_URL
   Group: URL_Content_Type
      Type: VIEW PROJECT HOME PAGE
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   URL: http://www.whoi.edu/beaufortgyre/
   Description: Beaufort Gyre Expedition Project
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Metadata_Name: CEOS IDN DIF
Metadata_Version: 9.7
DIF_Creation_Date: 2006-01-22
Last_DIF_Revision_Date: 2012-09-13
DIF_Revision_History: Updated originating data center.