Beaufort Gyre Exploration Project

Organization

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, Woods Hole, MA

Principal contact

Dr. Andrey Proshutinsky, email: aproshutinski at whoi.edu

Project web sites

Project: www.whoi.edu/page.do?pid=66296

Moorings: www.whoi.edu/page.do?pid=66566

Methodology

Upward Looking Sonar on bottom anchored moorings

Location

Four locations in the Beufort Sea (see map)

Time interval

September 2003 to August 2017

Data processing notes

Data were processed and calibrated by R. Kirshfield., WHOI. Statistical summaries were computed from the 2-sec data by R. Lindsay, PSC

V20130819: 2008, 2009, and 2010 moorings were added in May 2012. Significant new processing steps were required at WHOI to account for extensive open water seen in some periods.

V20140918: 2012-2013 added

V20181201: 2013-2017 added

Number of samples

742x10^6 2-sec point values, 512 monthly averages

Documentation

Point data

On the BGEP web site:

http://www.whoi.edu/page.do?pid=66559

Citation

We ask that the following acknowledgment be given when Beaufort Gyre Project data are used: "The data were collected and made available by the Beaufort Gyre Exploration Project based at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (http://www.whoi.edu/beaufortgyre)." If you are using Beaufort Gyre Project data, please provide us with a citation to include in our compilation of publications that utilize Beaufort Gyre data and send this to Andrey Proshutinsky aproshutinsky@whoi.edu and Rick Krishfield rkrishfield@whoi.edu.

You may also cite this paper:

Krishfield, R. A., A. Proshutinsky, K. Tateyama, W. J. Williams, E. C. Carmack, F. A. McLaughlin, and M.-L. Timmermans (2014), Deterioration of perennial sea ice in the Beaufort Gyre from 2003 to 2012 and its impact on the oceanic freshwater cycle, J. Geophys. Res. Oceans, 119, 1271–1305, doi:10.1002/2013JC008999.

See the BGEP publications list for a list of more publications and pdf files.

Acknowledgements

National Science Foundation The BGFE project is funded by the Office of Polar Programs grant numbers ARC-0230184, ARC-0424824, ARC-0532754, ARC-063399, ARC-0631951, ARC-0722694, ARC-0806115, ARC-0938137.

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution WHOI is a private, nonprofit research facility dedicated to the study of marine science and to the education of marine scientists.

 

 

 

BGEP study narea map

BGEP study area with the four mooring locations marked as stars. (The dots are CTD stations.)

mooring design   

Mooring Design

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npeo box plots

Box plots show the median (black) and the 5th, 25th, 75th, and 95th percentile values for each month. The colors indicate the month of the year.