Ocean currents, hydrography and microstructure data from PROVOLO cruises

Data from three PROVOLO cruises conducted to the Lofoten Basin of the Norwegian Sea:
- Cruise HM2016611, R.V. Haakon Mosby, 26 May-15 June 2016
- Cruise KB2017606, R.V. Kristine Bonnevie, 10-24 March 2017
- Cruise HB2017618, R.V. Kristine Bonnevie, 2-15 September 2017

PROVOLO (Watermass transformation processes and vortex dynamics in the
Lofoten Basin of the Norwegian Sea) is led at the Geophysical Institute,
University of Bergen (PI: Ilker Fer) and is funded by the Research Council
of Norway (project number 250784) for the period 01.01.2016-31.12.2019
to describe and quantify the processes and pathways of energy transfer
and mixing in the Lofoten Basin and their role in water mass transformation.

The cruise data set is organized in four files, categorized by the instrument and data type,
and includes merged data from all three cruises as follows:
PROVOLO_CTD: Shipboard salinity, temperature and density profiles
PROVOLO_SADCP: Current profiles from vessel-mounted acoustic Doppler current profilers
PROVOLO_LADCP: Current profiles from lowered acoustic Doppler current profilers
PROVOLO_VMP: Ocean microstructure profiles

The summary and comments sections of each file have a descrpton of the corresponding data set.
Further details on the processing, an overview of the data, and a detailed list of stations are
provided in the attached cruise reports.