Identification

Title

SHEBA Ocean Turbulence Mast Data Archive

Alternative title(s)

106.ARCSS142

Abstract

This data set includes a time series of temperature, conductivity, salinity, three-dimensional velocity, pressure, and magnetic heading at multiple levels in the boundary layer under the drifting ice floe. As part of the Surface Heat Budget of the Arctic Ocean (SHEBA) project, data were collected continuously for the approximately year-long experiment. However, the experiment was divided roughly in half when a severe deformation event occurred in March 1998. After this event, the ocean camp was shifted to a new site farther into the SHEBA floe. In the first half of the experiment (October 1997 through March 1998), there were four turbulence instrument clusters (TIC) that included three mechanical rotor current meters, which sensed the mean flow velocity. These were oriented approximately at 4 m, 8 m, 12 m, and 16 m below the ice-ocean interface in the western Arctic Ocean. For the second half of the experiment (April through September 1998), only two TICs were deployed on the mast. The clusters measured mean quantities, turbulent momentum, and heat fluxes with reasonable approximations to salinity flux. Data were originally distributed on a DVD but are now available as a single .tar.gz file that contains the contents of the DVD. The file is about 1GB in size.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://data.eol.ucar.edu//dataset/106.ARCSS142

protocol: https

description: Dataset homepage

Unique resource identifier

code

106.ARCSS142

codeSpace

Dataset language

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

dataset

originating controlled vocabulary

title

Resource Type

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2014-10-16

Keyword set

keyword value

Moorings

Keyword set

keyword value

Oceanography

Arctic

Sea Ice

Keyword set

keyword value

EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SALINITY/DENSITY > SALINITY

EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SALINITY/DENSITY > CONDUCTIVITY

EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CIRCULATION > OCEAN CURRENTS

EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN TEMPERATURE > WATER TEMPERATURE

EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CIRCULATION > TURBULENCE

originating controlled vocabulary

title

Global Change Master Directory (GCMD)

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2018-02-27

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-170.00000

East bounding longitude

-140.00000

North bounding latitude

81.00000

South bounding latitude

74.00000

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

1997-10-09T00:00:00Z

End position

1998-09-27T23:59:59Z

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2011-05-17T09:08:45Z

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/

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Responsible party

organisation name

McPhee Research Company

full postal address

450 Clover Spring Road

Naches

98937

telephone number

(509) 658-2575

email address

miles@wolfenet.com

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/

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2024-02-07T22:49:59Z

Metadata language

eng; USA