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The Data Access Portal has information in 3 columns. An outline of the content in these columns is provided above. When first entering the search interface, all potential datasets are listed. Datasets are indicated in the map and results tabulation elements which are located in the middle column. The order of results can be modified using the "Sort by" option in the left column. On top of this column is normally relevant guidance information to user presented as collapsible elements.
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The Nansen Legacy cruise Q1 was part of the seasonal investigation of the northern Barents Sea and adjacent Arctic Basin. The cruise was conducted in 2-24 March 2021 onboard R/V Kronprins Haakon, and focused on studying the physical, chemical and biological conditions along the Nansen Legacy main transect in open waters and within the sea ice. While in sea ice we conducted ten regional scale sea ice helicopter-borne surveys of ice conditions along the Nansen Legacy transect using a helicopter-borne electromagnetic instrument (HEM) EM-bird. This dataset presents processed EM-bird data on total snow and sea-ice thickness along the flight tracks.
This is a contribution to the Research Council of Norway project “Nansen Legacy” (https://arvenetternansen.com/), WP RF-1 “Physical drivers”.
Quality
See the attached docuement “AeN_Q1_202103_HEM_icethickness_metadata_v1.0.pdf” for details on the data acqusition, processing and structure.
The dataset includes water column measurements of spectral beam attenuation and absorption coefficients by non-water constituents. Measurements were collected in May 2021 during cruise 2021704, Q2, in the northern Barents Sea as part of the Nansen Legacy project. The WET Labs ac-s spectrophotometer (Seabird Scientific) were used to collect in situ profiles, with a constant descent velocity (∼0.3 m/s) down to a depth of 350 m, or ~10 m below the ocean floor. Measurements were corrected for temperature and salinity effects. The proportional method was used to correct the scattering error of the absorption measurements, assuming zero absorption at 709 nm. The measurements were binned with 2.0 m (dbar) spacing, applying the median to average the data. See the referenced article for more information.
Time-series data from moorings covering the Svalbard Branch of the Atlantic Water inflow over the upper continental slope north of Svalbard, Sep 2017 to Nov 2019. The data comprise temperature, salinity and other parameters from CTDs, and water currents from ADCPs.
Data are published as individual time-series files from the different instruments. Both raw (RDI .000 format) and processed (netCDF) ADCP data are published.
Quality
Data processed with standard software from the instrument manufacturers plus additional quality controls to remove bad data points. Details of ADCP processing and quality control are described in the documentation PDF.
Ocean data from two ocean moorings, M1 and M2. Both were Nansen Legacy gateway moorings deployed in the northern Barents Sea at potential “gateways” of ocean exchange with the north and east. The moorings were equipped with ADCPs measuring ocean currents, and temperature and conductivity-temperature-pressure sensors at various points along the mooring line:
- Conductivity, temperature, and pressure from RBR Concerto and SBE16plus v2 instruments.
- Temperature from RBR Solo instruments.
- Near-surface ocean currents from upward-looking Nortek Signature 500 kHz ADCP instruments.
- Water column currents from upward-looking RDI 150 kHz ADCP instruments.
The current version of the dataset (V1) contains data from the two first deployments of M1 and M2, covering the period from October 2018 to September 2020.
The document “M1_M2_data_processing_details_2018_2020.pdf” contains further details about the data and processing, as well as important information for users of the data.
The Norwegian Polar Institute is the owner of all the instrumentation described in this document, and was responsible for data processing and documentation. Data are freely available under a CC-BY 4.0 license.
VERSION HISTORY:
V1 (27-07-2022): Created dataset, uploaded raw and processed data for M1 and M2 (2018-2020) with documentation.
Processed data are organized per mooring and deployment. E.g., “m1_2.zip” contain processed data from deployment 2 (2019-2020) of the M1 mooring, etc. All raw data are collected in “raw_m1m2_2018_2020.zip”.
Quality
Data are available both in raw form and as netCDF files with processed data. The document “M1_M2_data_processing_details_2018_2020.pdf” contains further details about the data and processing, as well as important information for users.
Time-series data from moorings covering the Svalbard Branch of the Atlantic Water inflow over the upper continental slope north of Svalbard, Sep 2013 to Sep 2015. The data comprise temperature, salinity and other parameters from CTDs, and water currents from ADCPs.
Data are published as individual time-series files from the different instruments. Both raw (RDI .000 format) and processed (netCDF) ADCP data are published.
Quality
Data processed with standard software from the instrument manufacturers plus additional quality controls to remove bad data points. Details of ADCP processing and quality control are described in the documentation PDF.
Inherent optical data collected in Storfjorden (Svalbard) in June 2020 onboard the coast guard vessel KV Svalbard during the Useful Arctic Knowledge project summer school. This data was collected as part of the Nansen Legacy project. Optical data collected includes in situ measurements of absorption and attenuation, accompanied by in situ profiles of salinity, temperature, pressure (CTD) and dissolved organic matter fluorescence (3-channel fluorometer).
Water samples were collected for measurements of dissolved (colored dissolved organic matter, CDOM) absorption, and material was collected on filters for determination of particulate absorption by phytoplankton and non-algal particles, and the stable oxygen isotopic composition of seawater.
The data is available in netcdf files or individual CSV files.
Absorption_Cruise_UAK2020.nc: contains the measurements of CDOM and particulate absorption from water samples. In_Situ_Absorption_Attenution_Cruise_UAK2020: contains the in situ measurements of spectral absorption and attenuation
The CSV files in this collection include the spectral measurements of optical properties as follows:
icam_aphy.csv: Phytoplankton absorption coefficient (in 1/m) as measured with the QFT-ICAM technique
icam_anap.csv: Non-algal particle absorption coefficient (in 1/m) as measured with the QFT-ICAM technique
Perkin_ap.csv: Total particle absorption coefficient (1/m) as measured with the QFT_Perkin technique
O18.csv: Oxygen isotope ratio (δ18O, in ‰ against VSMOW)
acs_fdom_ctd: High vertical resolution in situ cast data: total non-water absorption (1/m) and attenuation (1/m), Fluorescence by Dissolved Organic Matter (FDOM, raw digital signal counts), water salinity (practical salinity scale) and temperature (degrees Celsius).
FDOM was measured at three excitation/emission pairs as follows: Channel 1 (Ch1, 310/450 nm) that represents marine ultraviolet humic-like and marine humic-like material; for Channel 2 (Ch2, 280/450 nm) represents terrestrial humic-like material; and for Channel 3 (Ch3, 280/350 nm) represents protein-like tryptophane type material.
The details of the data processing are described in the published paper (see link below).
Sea ice salinity and temperature mesured on ice cores collected on the Nansen Legacy seasonal cruises in the Barents Sea and Nansen Basin. The sea ice cores were collected on seven Nansen Legacy research cruises (Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4, JC1-2, JC2-1, JC3) onboard RV Kronprins Haakon between February and December in 2018-2022.
Quality
Data of salinity and temperature measured on sea ice cores collected on seven Nansen Legacy research cruises (Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4, JC1-2, JC2-1, JC3) onboard RV Kronprins Haakon between February and December in 2018-2022, covering seasonal data in the Barents Sea and Nansen Basin. The ice stations followed Nansen Legacy standard stations (P, M, NLEG, PICE, SICE) on a south-north (76N-83N) repeated transect. Method: Sea ice cores were collected using a Kovacs corer (Ø=9cm) and ice temperature (WVR temperature sensor) was meaured at every 5 cm of the core. The core was cut into 10 cm pieces, melted and salinity (WTW 3310 conductivity sensor) was measured in the lab onboard. Different cores were used in this data set; “chem core” is the main core, “alkalinity core” is extra core and “NaN” is mostly due to collection by the sea ice physics team.
M2 acoustic presence of marine mammals and anthropogenic noise manually counted for the period 2019-2020
Quality
Daily acoustic presence of the different sound sources (marine mammals, vessels and airguns) manually identified (except blue and fin whale, automatically detected using spectrogram correlation in Ishmael) during the manual inspection of spectrograms from each acoustic file (one file per hour) for the available data period 2019/2020 in M2, Svalbard. The M2 AURAL recorder sampled 12 min each hour during the given data period.
Variables: dt: date Month: Categorical variable with the name of the month Week: number of week since beginning of the study period Bowhead: acoustic presence of Balaena mysticetus Bowsong: acoustic presence of Balaena mysticetus songs Narwhal: acoustic presence of Monodon monoceros Narwhistle: acoustic presence of Monodon monoceros tonal sounds Walrus: acoustic presence of Odobenus rosmarus Bearded: acoustic presence of Erignathus barbatus Vessel: acoustic presence of vessel noise Odontocete: acoustic presence of odontocete-like whistle and tonal sounds non idetinfied to spp. level Airgun: acoustic presence of airgun blasts Harp: acoustic presence of Pagophilus groenlandicus Humpback: acoustic presence of Megaptera novaeangliae Blue: acoustic presence of Balaenoptera musculus Fin: acoustic presence of Balaenoptera physalus
The data set contains daily sea ice concentrations for each of the 42 Nansen Legacy stations for the period 2017-2021 derived from AMSR-2 and AMSR-E sea ice concentrations products. The data set is complemented with local sea ice concentration from visual bridge-based observations of the state of sea ice pack conducted following ASSIST Ice Watch protocol during some of the Nansen Legacy cruises to the study area.
This is a contribution to the Research Council of Norway project “Nansen Legacy” (https://arvenetternansen.com/), WP RF-1 “Physical drivers”.
Quality
For details on the data product see the attached file NL_stations_ice_concentration_2017-2021_metadata.pdf
Root Mean Squared (RMS) Sound Pressure Levels (SPL) were calculated for the one-Third Octave Level (TOL) bands centered at 63 Hz, 125 Hz and 250 Hz; and for the broadband 50-1000 Hz using PAMGuide package (Merchant et al. 2015) and custom-made MATLAB code. One RMS SPL value per file was obtained, averaging 12 min of recording in M2.
Variables: time: datetime TOL63HZ: Sound Pressure Level for the third-octave level band centered at 63 Hz TOL125HZ: Sound Pressure Level for the third-octave level band centered at 125 Hz TOL250HZ: Sound Pressure Level for the third-octave level band centered at 250 Hz BB501000: Sound Pressure Level for the broadband 50-1000 Hz
The dataset includes spectral absorption coefficients of colored dissolved organic matter (CDOM), ’particulate matter and non-algal particles in seawater. Samples were collected in May 2021 as part of cruise 2021704, Q2, in the northern Barents Sea as part of the Nansen Legacy project. Sea water was sampled using Niskin bottles attached to a rosette onboard R/V Kronprins Haakon. CDOM samples were filtered through a 0.22 μm cartridge filter, and measured on a 1 m liquid waveguide capillary cell (LWCC). Particulate absorption measured on 0.7 μm pore size GFF filters (25 mm diameter, nominally 1 liter filtered volume), and measured on a Lambda 950 UV-Vis-NIR spectrophotometer and QFT-ICAM absorption meter. Non-algal particle absorption is measured after bleaching the filters using H2O2.
Fatty acid-specific stable isotopes of the fatty acids 16:1(n-7), 20:5(n-3) and 22:6(n-3) in pelagic particulate organic matter (PPOM), ice-associated particulate organic matter (IPOM) and pelagic zooplankton species (copepods, krill, amphipods, chaetognaths, appendicularians) collected from the Barents Sea during Nansen Legacy seasonal cruise Q3 in August 2019
Time-series data from moorings covering the Svalbard Branch of the Atlantic Water inflow over the upper continental slope north of Svalbard, Sep 2015 to Sep 2017. The data comprise temperature, salinity and other parameters from CTDs, and water currents from ADCPs.
Data are published as individual time-series files from the different instruments. Both raw and processed ADCP data are published.
Quality
Data processed with standard software from the instrument manufacturers plus additional quality controls to remove bad data points. Details of ADCP processing and quality control are described in the documentation PDF.
Dissolved inorganic nutrients (nitrate, phosphate and silicic acid) from the combined Nansen Legacy and A-TWAIN cruise Mooring service cruise 2021 (cruise 2021713).
The cruise 2021713 in November 2021 aboard the Research Vessel Kronprins Haakon is part of the projects A-TWAIN and the Nansen LEGACY. The A-TWAIN project is focusing on monitoring of the Atlantic Water boundary current north of Svalbard. The Nansen LEGACY is the Norwegian Arctic research community’s joint effort to establish a holistic understanding of a changing marine Arctic climate and ecosystem.
Water column temperature and salinity profiles were obtained with a conductivity-temperature-depth (CTD) sensor system Sea-Bird SBE 911+ mounted on a General Oceanics rosette sampler equipped with 24 Niskin bottles used for seawater sampling of chemical variables in the water column. Samples for the determination of dissolved inorganic nutrients were collected from full water column at a total of six stations starting from the shelf northern Barents Sea to the Nansen Basin along the moored A-TWAIN line. The seawater samples were collected from Niskin bottles in 20 ml plastic HDPE vials (rinsed three times) and preserved with 250 µL chloroform and stored +4C and dark until post-cruise analysis of nitrite (NO2), nitrate (NO3-), phosphate (PO43-), and silicate (Si(OH)4), using spectrophotometry according to standard protocols (Grasshoff et al., 2009; Gundersen et al., 2022) at the chemical laboratory at Institute of Marine Research, Bergen, Norway. Three replicates were analyzed for each sample. The detection limits based on QUASIMEME ring-test are 0.06 µmol/L, 0.5 µmol/L, 0.06 µmol/L and 0.7 µmol/L for NO2, NO3-, PO43-, and Si(OH)4, respectively. The sampling and sample analysis were supported by the Research Council of Norway through the projects The Nansen LEGACY (RCN #276730) and SIOS-InfraNor (RCN #269927).
The data set present the calculated sea ice back-trajectories of 30 sea ice stations conducted in the northern Barents Sea and in western Arctic Basin north of Svalbard between August 2018 to March 2022. The sea ice stations were made during eight research cruises to the area with R/V Kronprins Haakon in the framework of the Nansen Legacy project. For details on the back-tracking methodology and data structure please see the attached metadata file NansenLegacy_sea_ice_stations_back-trajectories.pdf