Publication Date:
2024-01-08
Description:
The dataset compiles water current velocities and direction measured by a platform-based upward looking Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler. Data was acquired in August 2018 during the Yukon Coast 2018 expedition to the Herschel Island – Qikiqtaruk coastal observatory, conducted by the Alfred Wegener Institute in Potsdam, Germany. Goal of this project was to find drivers that control nearshore currents and to map their spatio-temporal variation. These currents might play an important role in the transport process of sediments and organic matter in the nearshore zone of the Arctic Ocean. The sediments mainly originate from the rapidly eroding permafrost coasts. The columns of this data file include Date/Time, height above the seafloor of the respective measurement cell (bin), current velocity in east-west direction and current velocity in north-south direction.
Keywords:
Acoustic Current Doppler Profiler; Acoustic Doppler Current Profiling (ADCP); Acoustic Doppler Current Profiling (ADCP), RDI Workhorse Sentinel, 600 kHz; ADCP; ADCP data; Arctic Ocean; Arctic Shelf; AWI_Perma; AWI Arctic Land Expedition; Beaufort Sea; CA-Land_2018_YukonCoast; Coastal erosion; Current Direction; currents; current velocity; Current velocity, east-west; Current velocity, north-south; Date/Time local; Height above sea floor/altitude; Herschel Island; hydrodynamics; Nearshore zone; NUNATARYUK; NUNATARYUK, Permafrost thaw and the changing Arctic coast, science for socioeconomic adaptation; Permafrost; Permafrost Research; Qikiqtaruk; YC_2018_ADCP; Yukon_Coast_2018; Yukon Coast
Type:
Dataset
Format:
text/tab-separated-values, 923306 data points
