Creator/Principal investigator(s)
Swedish Polar Research Secretariat
Description
SWERUS-C3 was an international research expedition using the icebreaker Oden in the Arctic Ocean. The expedition was a Swedish/Russian/American collaboration, and some 80 researchers will operated in the northern stretches of the Laptev Sea, the East Siberian Sea and the Chukchi Sea. The researchers studied the interactions between the thawing cryosphere, the carbon system and the climate system.
The expedition embarked from Tromsø, Norway on 6 July and proceeded along the Russian polar sea to Barrow, Alaska. Researchers and crew were changed on 20 August in Barrow, when the second leg of the expedition began. The route back to Scandinavia crossed the Lomonosov Ridge, an underwater mountain chain near the North Pole, and the expedition returned to Tromsø on 4 October.
The main scientific questions concerned the linkages between climate, cryosphere, and carbon - hence the name “C3”. The researchers studied emissions of methane stored in the permafrost on the seabed as well as carbon transport routes in the sea and ice.
The main issues researchers were seeking to address during the first leg
Language
English
Research principal
Data contains personal data
No
Time period(s) investigated
2014-07-03 – 2014-10-04
Geographic spread
Geographic location: Arctic Ocean
Research area
Environmental Sciences, Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences, Oceanography, Hydrology and Water Resources, Engineering and Technology
(The Swedish standard of fields of research 2011)
Climatology / Meteorology / Atmosphere, Oceans, Environment
(INSPIRE topic categories)
Keywords
meteorology, atmosphere, atmospheric winds, surface winds, atmospheric temperature, air temperature, atmospheric water vapor, humidity, clouds, cloud frequency, atmospheric pressure, surface pressure, oceans, salinity/density, salinity, conductivity, density, ocean temperature, sea surface temperature, water depth, seafloor topography, bathymetry, biosphere, vegetation, photosynthetically active radiation, the icebreaker oden, meteorology
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Description
This data set contains meteorological, oceanographic and ship data collected during the Swedish-Russian-U.S. expedition SWERUS-C3, which was an international research cruise using the icebreaker Oden in the Arctic Ocean.
Data includes:
Meteorological variables: Air temperature, Humidity, Wind direction/speed, Atmospheric pressure, Cloud height/cloudiness, Photosynthetic Active Radiation (PAR).
Oceanographic variables: Sea water temperature, Conductivity, Salinity and Sound velocity.
Ship da
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Data format / data structure
Numeric
Geospatial
Creator/Principal investigator(s)
Swedish Polar Research Secretariat
Collection methodology
Meteorological and oceanographic measurements