Western Arctic Shelf-Basin Interactions Experiment: Processing and Calibration of Moored Profiler Data from the Beaufort Shelf Edge Mooring Array

Abstract

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 period. This report documents the collection, calibration, and quality control of this moored profiler data.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2006
Accession Number
ADA462733

Entities

People

  • Marshall Swartz
  • Paula S. Fratantoni
  • Robert Pickart
  • Sarah Zimmermann

Organizations

  • Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Acquisition
  • Beaufort Sea
  • Birds
  • Calibration
  • Cells
  • Conductivity
  • Continental Shelves
  • Data Acquisition
  • Data Processing
  • Deployment
  • High Resolution
  • Military Research
  • Observation
  • Quality Control
  • Underwater Acoustics
  • Water

Readers

  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers
  • Oceanography.