Under-ice temperature and salinity measurements at Ice Ridge Observatory during MOSAiC from an RBR Concerto CTD

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Two RBR Concerto Conductivity Temperature Depth (CTD) sensors (SN 60611 & SN 60610) were deployed as part of the Sea Ice Ridge Observatory, also called Fort Ridge, in the Arctic Ocean during the 2nd leg of the MOSAiC ice drift expedition in February 2020. The CTDs are autonomous instruments that measured conductivity (salinity), temperature, and pressure (depth) approximately 2-3 m below the sea ice on either side of a large ice ridge. The RBR 60610 was lost due to ice rafting before data was downloaded. The RBR 60611 was recovered in May 2020, resulting in one time series between January 3rd and May 6th2020. RBR 60611 was redeployed on May 6th but also lost due to ice rafting shortly after. Each CTD was deployed together with a Nortek Signature1000 acoustic Doppler current profiler (doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.941882), installed at a 2 m distance. Here we describe the instrument hardware, setup, and processing that resulted in the final data set. The instruments were deployed as part of the project Ridges - Safe HAVens for ice-associated Flora and Fauna in a Seasonally ice-covered Arctic OCean (HAVOC), funded by the Research Council of Norway, project number: 280292.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.942045
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.941882
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.2021.00062
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Creator Muilwijk, Morven ORCID logo; Sundfjord, Arild ORCID logo; Divine, Dmitry V ORCID logo; Granskog, Mats A ORCID logo; Heuzé, Céline ORCID logo; Itkin, Polona ORCID logo; Kanzow, Torsten ORCID logo; Katlein, Christian ORCID logo; Kong, Bin; Kuznetsov, Ivan ORCID logo; Lange, Benjamin Allen ORCID logo; Liu, Halilong; Mallet, Maria; Mohrholz, Volker ORCID logo; Olsen, Lasse Mørk; Rabe, Benjamin ORCID logo; Raphael, Ian ORCID logo; Schaffer, Janin ORCID logo; Schuffenhauer, Ingo; Schulz, Kirstin (ORCID: 0000-0001-8404-944X); Shimanchuk, Egor; Sukhikh, Natalia; Tippenhauer, Sandra ORCID logo
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2022
Funding Reference Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven https://doi.org/10.13039/501100003207 Crossref Funder ID AFMOSAiC-1_00 Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate; Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven https://doi.org/10.13039/501100003207 Crossref Funder ID AWI_PS122_00 Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate / MOSAiC; The Research Council of Norway https://doi.org/10.13039/501100005416 Crossref Funder ID 280292 https://prosjektbanken.forskningsradet.no/en/project/FORISS/280292 Ridges - Safe HAVens for ice-associated Flora and Fauna in a Seasonally ice-covered Arctic OCean
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Resource Type Dataset
Format application/x-netcdf
Size 60 MBytes
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (10.594W, 78.133S, 115.691E, 86.916N); Arctic Ocean
Temporal Coverage Begin 2020-01-03T11:13:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2020-06-03T19:44:00Z