Barents Sea

Air pressure; Air temperature; Electrical conductivity of the water column; Wind strength and direction; Vertical velocity of the water column (currents); Horizontal velocity of the water column (currents); Bathymetry and Elevation; Temperature of the water column

Meteorological packages; bathythermographs; single-beam echosounders; multi-beam echosounders; CTD undulators; CTD; satellite positioning systems; current profilers; thermistor chains

The data set resulted from a survey to investigate the tactical exploitation of Polar and Arctic fronts, Marginal ice zone and under-ice regions. This forms the DRA/UK contribution to SIZEX'92. Data collected included SeaSoar, navigation, surface meteorology, XBT, CTD, echo sounder and shipborne ADCP. Data were collected by the Tactical Exploitation Section of the Sonar Performance Division at DRA, Portland. SeaSoar, navigation, meteorology, XBT and CTD data are stored in the DRA archive system and have been processed to the DRA standard MIDAS user data file format. These data have been screened for format and data errors and corrected to produce a 'clean' data set. The shipborne ADCP data are also stored in the DRA archive system.

Geddes, N.R. (1993) Measured Data Sets held by DRA Sonar Performance Division (1993)., Report DRA/US/USSF/TM93201/1.0

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