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Microcat, current meter and ADCP data from moorings of the Deep Western Boundary Current array as part of UK OSNAP
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Title |
Microcat, current meter and ADCP data from moorings of the Deep Western Boundary Current array (Irminger Sea) as part of UK OSNAP (Overturning in the Subpolar North Atlantic Programme) |
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Author(s) |
Holliday N.P. (1);
Rayner D. (1);
Bacon S. (1);
Houpert L.A. (2)
(1) National Oceanography Centre, Southampton; (2) Scottish Association for Marine Science |
Subject | oceans |
Abstract |
UK OSNAP (Overturning in the subpolar North Atlantic Programme) is a NERC Large Grant (2013-2018) and forms part of the international OSNAP array put in place to measure the full depth, basin-wide overturning circulation and associate transport of heat and freshwater. The array consists of a series of vertical moorings in the boundaries of the subpolar basins, supplemented by glider missions over shallow topography and floats (RAFOS floats to track the pathways of the overflow waters, and profiling floats to provide temperature and salinity information in the interior basins). This dataset has data from the first two year long deployments (2014 to 2016) of the Deep Western Boundary Current Array in the Irminger Sea, operated by UK OSNAP. The 5 moorings were deployed on cruise KN221-03 (2014), serviced on cruise PE400 (2015), recovered on DY054 (2016). The data sets are timeseries of pressure, temperature, salinity and currents and have been fully processed, calibrated and quality controlled. |
Temporal coverage | 06 July 2014 - 17 August 2016 |
Spatial coverage | North Atlantic Ocean |
File format | Delimited |
Language | English |
Discovery metadata record | Link to the related European Directory of Marine Environmental Data (EDMED) record |
Publisher | British Oceanographic Data Centre - Natural Environment Research Council, UK |
Publication date | 29 October 2018 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | doi:10.5285/6cb6dc0c-7bed-3ca4-e053-6c86abc0b9f0 |
Short DOI | doi:10/cwf4 |
Superseded | This dataset is superseded by that published at |
Citation text | Holliday N.P.; Rayner D.; Bacon S.; Houpert L.A.(2018). Microcat, current meter and ADCP data from moorings of the Deep Western Boundary Current array (Irminger Sea) as part of UK OSNAP (Overturning in the Subpolar North Atlantic Programme) British Oceanographic Data Centre - Natural Environment Research Council, UK. doi:10.5285/6cb6dc0c-7bed-3ca4-e053-6c86abc0b9f0 |