Creator/Principal investigator(s)
Swedish Polar Research Secretariat
Description
Petermann 2015 was an international research expedition to the area around the Petermann glacier in northwestern Greenland. The Swedish icebreaker Oden served as the platform for the research carried out in the sea, on the glacier and on land.
The expedition examined the relatively unexplored outlet end of this large system, by documenting changes in the grounded Petermann Glacier, its buttressing ice shelf, and ocean conditions since the end of the last glacial period. Primary scientific questions included:
How sensitive is Petermann ice shelf extent to documented climate changes within the Holocene?
Is ice-shelf response independent of, or linked to, variations in the grounded Petermann Glacier, ocean thermal conditions, or relative sea level (i.e., sill depth)?
What are the rates of change and variability of these systems in response to early Holocene warming, Neoglacial cooling, and post-Neoglacial (late 19th century to present) warming?
Purpose:
The purpose of the project was to collect multibeam bathymetry and sub-bottom profile information along the western continental shelf of Green
Language
English
Research principal
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Time period(s) investigated
2015-07-28 – 2015-09-03
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, atmospheric pressure, surface pressure, salinity, conductivity, photosynthetically active radiation, water temperature, water depth, seafloor topography, bathymetry, biosphere, vegetation, the icebreaker oden
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This data set contains meteorological, oceanographic and ship data collected during the International expedition Petermann, which was an international research cruise using the icebreaker Oden in the Arctic Ocean.
Data include 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: Positi
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Geospatial
Creator/Principal investigator(s)
Swedish Polar Research Secretariat
Time period(s) investigated
2015-07-28 – 2015-09-23
Collection methodology
Meteorological and oceanographic measurements
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