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Title: SBI AWS02-I CTD Data collected from the Polar Star in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas (NODC Accession 0001290)
Abstract: The field phase of the Shelf-Basin Interactions Experiment (SBI) began in 2002 with a series of three cruises to the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas. SBI is a multi-institutional program investigating how the western Arctic shelves communicate with the interior of the Canada Basin, from a coupled physical/biochemical perspective. The physical oceanographic (PO) component of SBI was carried
out on the Coast Guard icebreaker Polar Star, from mid-July to mid-August. The primary aim of the PO component is to identify and understand the water masses and mechanisms by which shelf waters ventilate the western Arctic halocline.

The major goals of the 2002 Arctic West Summer cruise (AWS02) were to (1) deploy a system of moorings that will measure the outflow from the Chukchi shelf (the UW/UAF component); (2) deploy a high-resolution moored array across the Beaufort slope, downstream of the outflows, to determine how these waters are fluxed into the interior (the WHOI component); and (3) conduct a hydrographic survey encompassing locations along the Chukchi and Beaufort shelf edge. The cruise
was a resounding success on all accounts.
Date received: 20040105
Start date: 20020715
End date: 20020813
Seanames: Beaufort Sea, Chukchi Sea - NW Coast of Alaska
West boundary: -180
East boundary: -130
North boundary: 80
South boundary: 60
Observation types: physical, profile
Instrument types: CTD
Datatypes: SALINITY, WATER TEMPERATURE
Submitter: Grebmeier, Dr. Jacqueline M.
Submitting institution: University of Tennessee
Collecting institutions: National Science Foundation
Contributing projects: SBI
Platforms: Polar Star (32PZ)
Number of observations:
Supplementary information: Data was obtained from the UCAR/JOSS website, http://www.joss.ucar.edu/cgi-bin/codiac/projs?SBI. Release confirmation received from Jackie Grebmeier. See journal.txt for corresponding e-mail.
Availability date: 20050218
Metadata version: 5
Keydate: 2004-01-05 17:14:32+00
Editdate: 2013-10-16 16:36:13+00