SWERUS-C3 - Meteorological, Oceanographic and Ship Data Collected on board the Icebreaker Oden, July through October 2014

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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

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Topic classification:

Oceans, Climatology / Meteorology / Atmosphere, Environment, Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences, Oceanography, Hydrology and Water Resources, Engineering and Technology, Environmental Sciences

Keywords:

Meteorology, 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

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Swedish Polar Research Secretariat

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Access to data through SND
Data are freely accessible

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Expedition: SWERUS-C3

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The purpose of the expedition was to study the processes, sources and fluxes of methane in the East Siberian shelf seas, how they function today, and how it may evolve in the future. In recent years, researchers have discovered that large amounts of carbon, including as methane, are being released from the thawing permafrost. This could represent a carbon-climate feedback, enhancing the ongoing global warming process. There are also traces of the evolution of the region in the sediment at the bottom of the Arctic Ocean. By studying this sediment, SWERUS-C3 researchers was hoping to determine whether or not there have been periods during the last million years when the summer sea ice was smaller than it is today, and if so, why. This long-term historical evolution is a key factor in understanding what is happening to the climate. today, and in our ability to predict what will happen in the future.

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

... Show more..

Language:

English

Time period(s) investigated:

2014-07-03 — 2014-10-04

Geographic spread:

Geographic location: Arctic ocean

Topic classification:

Oceans, Climatology / Meteorology / Atmosphere, Environment, Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences, Oceanography, Hydrology and Water Resources, Engineering and Technology, Environmental Sciences

Keywords:

Meteorology, 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

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Map of expedition Route (English)

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2017-09-13 doi:10.5879/ECDS/2016-06-28.1/1

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ECDS0196-001-V1.0.zip SWERUS-C3 - Meteorological, Oceanographic and Ship Data Collected on board the Icebreaker Oden, July through October 2014

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SWERUS-C3 - Meteorological, Oceanographic and Ship Data Collected on board the Icebreaker Oden, July through October 2014

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Swedish Polar Research Secretariat (2017). SWERUS-C3 - Meteorological, Oceanographic and Ship Data Collected on board the Icebreaker Oden, July through October 2014. Swedish National Data Service. Version 1.0. https://doi.org/10.5879/ECDS/2016-06-28.1/1

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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 data: Position, Speed, Course, Water depth.

Quality Information:

Obviously erroneous data (e.g. negative air pressure) have been omitted. No other processing or quality check of the data has been undertaken. Users should be aware of this in further data handling and analysis.

Data format / data structure:

Numeric

Geospatial

Data collection:

2014-07 — 2014-10

Mode of collection: Field observation

Collection methodology:

Meteorological and oceanographic measurements