Bering Strait Mooring Data 2018-2019

Data are available from the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI):
https://data.nodc.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/iso?id=gov.noaa.nodc:0210805
https://data.nodc.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/iso?id=gov.noaa.nodc:0210804
This is an archive of data from moorings deployed in Bering Strait from summer 2018 to summer 2019. Mooring deployments were funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) -Arctic Observing Network award PLR-1758565 (PIs: Woodgate and Peralta-Ferriz). The mooring work required 2 dedicated cruises:
- in 2018 (10th - 19th August), a ~ 10 day cruise on the United States (US) vessel Norseman2 deployed the moorings. Some conductivity-temperature-depth (CTD) sections were run on this cruise, and those data are archived separately.
- in 2019 (5th - 15th September), a ~ 11 day cruise on the US vessel
For 2018 to 2019, a total of three moorings were deployed:
- two moorings (A2 and A4) in the US channel of the strait,
- one mooring (A3) at a site just north of the strait.
For details of the measurements and their interpretation, please see:
Woodgate, R.A., K.M.Stafford and F.G.Prahl (2015) A synthesis of year-round interdisciplinary mooring measurements in the Bering Strait (1990-2014) and the RUSALCA years (2004-2011), Oceanography 28(3):46-67, doi:10.5670/oceanog.2015.57 and
Woodgate, R.A., 2018, Increases in the Pacific inflow to the Arctic from 1990 to 2015, and insights into seasonal trends and driving mechanisms from year-round Bering Strait mooring data, Progress in Oceanography, 160, 124-154, doi:10.1016/j.pocean.2017.12.007.
Please use both 2015 and 2018 citations for these data.
For an overview of cruises and project, please see:
http://psc.apl.washington.edu/BeringStrait.html