Seafloor Mounted Oceanographic Mooring: Temperature, Salinity, and Current Flow Data at Various Depths, Central-Western McMurdo Sound, 2023-Present

The oceanographic mooring (-77.81830000, 165.40590000) which records temperature, salinity, and current flow at multiple depths for full 12-month cycles represents a step-change in our ability to monitor the flow of Ice Shelf Water – which carries the signature of deep ice shelf melt – northwards and out of the Ross/McMurdo Ice Shelf cavity through western McMurdo Sound.


The site will be revisited in during the 2024/25 field season to recover the instruments and download their data. Our intention is to collect a total of 36 months of data (3x 12-month deployment/recovery cycles) in order to characterise the Ice Shelf Water outflow and the scale of its inter-annual variability.


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Date (Creation)
2023-11-02

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Purpose

Observe and improve understanding of physical ice-ocean processes.
Status
On going
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

Robinson, N.

natalie.robinson@niwa.co.nz

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NIWA

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Keywords

  • INSTALLATION

  • K892A
GCMD Earth Science and Earth Science Services Keywords

  • SEA ICE

  • CONDUCTIVITY

  • OCEAN CIRCULATION

  • WATER TEMPERATURE

  • OCEAN SALINITY

  • SEA ICE DYNAMICS

  • OCEAN TEMPERATURE

  • OCEAN CURRENTS
GCMD Platform/Sources Keywords

  • Data Collections

  • MOORINGS
GCMD Instrument Keywords

  • CONDUCTIVITY METERS

  • TEMPERATURE SENSORS

  • CURRENT METERS

  • PRESSURE SENSORS
GCMD Locations Keywords

  • ANTARCTICA

  • MCMURDO SOUND
GCMD Project Keywords

  • ASP
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  • Oceans

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Begin date
2023-11-04T00:00:00
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2024-06-18T03:55:09
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2003
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Antarctica New Zealand

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Keywords

GCMD Earth Science and Earth Science Services Keywords
CONDUCTIVITY OCEAN CIRCULATION OCEAN CURRENTS OCEAN SALINITY OCEAN TEMPERATURE SEA ICE SEA ICE DYNAMICS WATER TEMPERATURE
GCMD Instrument Keywords
CONDUCTIVITY METERS CURRENT METERS PRESSURE SENSORS TEMPERATURE SENSORS
GCMD Platform/Sources Keywords
Data Collections MOORINGS
GCMD Project Keywords
ASP

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