Identification

Title

North Pole Environmental Observatory (NPEO) Oceanographic Mooring Data

Alternative title(s)

106.ARCSS156

Abstract

This data set, acquired with an oceanographic bottom-anchored mooring, includes sea-ice draft and depth data, conductivity, temperature, pressure, salinity, and ocean current measurements such as speed and direction. Each mooring contains vertically distributed instruments, which measure ocean properties at fixed depths and record data internally. These data are retrieved annually when the mooring is recovered. Located on the Pole Abyssal Plain about 50 kilometers from the North Pole, the original 2001 mooring was chosen because it provided a suitable landing site for the supporting aircraft. Ocean depth was approximately 4300 m. Data were recorded half-hourly to hourly. The North Pole Environmental Observatory (NPEO) is a year-round, automated scientific observatory, deploying various instruments each April in order to learn how the world's northernmost sea helps regulate global climate. It consists of a set of unmanned scientific platforms that record oceanographic, cryospheric, and atmospheric data throughout the year. Data are in ASCII text format.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://data.eol.ucar.edu//dataset/106.ARCSS156

protocol: https

name: North Pole Environmental Observatory (NPEO) Oceanographic Mooring Data homepage

description: Dataset homepage

Unique resource identifier

code

106.ARCSS156

codeSpace

Dataset language

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

oceans

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

dataset

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2014-10-16

Keyword set

keyword value

Moorings

Keyword set

keyword value

Oceanography

Mooring

Arctic

Sea Ice

Keyword set

keyword value

EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CHEMISTRY > NITRATE

EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SALINITY/DENSITY > CONDUCTIVITY

EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CIRCULATION > OCEAN CURRENTS

EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN TEMPERATURE > WATER TEMPERATURE

EARTH SCIENCE > CRYOSPHERE > SEA ICE > ICE DEPTH/THICKNESS

EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN PRESSURE > WATER PRESSURE

EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CHEMISTRY > PIGMENTS

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2018-02-27

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

66.64694

East bounding longitude

66.64694

North bounding latitude

89.55694

South bounding latitude

89.55694

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

2001-04-02T00:00:00Z

End position

2008-07-16T23:59:59Z

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2009-06-10T11:37:02Z

Frequency of update

Quality and validity

Lineage

Conformity

Data format

name of format

version of format

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Use constraints

none

Limitations on public access

none

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

contact position

EOL Data Support

organisation name

UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory

full postal address

PO Box 3000

Boulder

80307-3000

email address

datahelp@eol.ucar.edu

web address

https://data.eol.ucar.edu/

name: homepage

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Responsible party

organisation name

Polar Science Center

full postal address

Polar Science Center University of Washington 1013 NE 40th Street

Seattle

98105-6698

USA

telephone number

(206) 543-1394

email address

morison@apl.washington.edu

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

contact position

EOL Data Support

organisation name

UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory

full postal address

PO Box 3000

Boulder

80307-3000

email address

datahelp@eol.ucar.edu

web address

https://data.eol.ucar.edu/

name: homepage

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2024-02-07T22:48:33Z

Metadata language