Abstract:

The data was collected September 25 through November 24, 2016 during a field campaign in the Arctic Ocean Beaufort Sea. The dataset consists of drifters trajectories from 20 CARTHE drifters released in two phases (18 drifters first and 2 drifters later). The first release was done September 25th in a region of open waters while the second one, with only two drifters, was done 3 weeks later in a region close to the ice edge. The dataset contains ~30 days of high temporal and spatial resolution positions in time for both raw and filtered data.

Suggested Citation:

Jean A. Mensa, Mary-Louise Timmermans, Tamay M. Ozgokmen. 2017. Trajectories from a drifter release in the Arctic Ocean Beaufort Sea, Fall 2016. Distributed by: Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative Information and Data Cooperative (GRIIDC), Harte Research Institute, Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi. doi:10.7266/N7J964SQ

Publications:

Mensa, J. A., Timmermans, M.-L., Kozlov, I. E., Williams, W. J., & Özgökmen, T. M. (2018). Surface Drifter Observations From the Arctic Ocean’s Beaufort Sea: Evidence for Submesoscale Dynamics. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 123(4), 2635–2645. doi:10.1002/2017jc013728

Purpose:

Drifters were released in the Arctic Ocean Beaufort Sea with the goal of exploring the presence and characteristics of submesoscale flows.

Data Parameters and Units:

The dataset contains positions in time of 20 drifters and the instantaneous velocities. Positions are expressed in geographic coordinates, time is in UTM (YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM.FFF) and velocities in meters per second. Position error (m), Velocity error (m/s), Latitude (degrees), Longitude (degrees)

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