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Root Mean Squared (RMS) Sound Pressure Levels (SPL) were calculated for the one-Third Octave Level (TOL) bands centered at 63 Hz, 125 Hz and 250 Hz; and for the broadband 50-1000 Hz using PAMGuide package (Merchant et al. 2015) and custom-made MATLAB code. One RMS SPL value per file was obtained, averaging 12 min of recording in M2.
Variables: time: datetime TOL63HZ: Sound Pressure Level for the third-octave level band centered at 63 Hz TOL125HZ: Sound Pressure Level for the third-octave level band centered at 125 Hz TOL250HZ: Sound Pressure Level for the third-octave level band centered at 250 Hz BB501000: Sound Pressure Level for the broadband 50-1000 Hz
The dataset includes spectral absorption coefficients of colored dissolved organic matter (CDOM), ’particulate matter and non-algal particles in seawater. Samples were collected in May 2021 as part of cruise 2021704, Q2, in the northern Barents Sea as part of the Nansen Legacy project. Sea water was sampled using Niskin bottles attached to a rosette onboard R/V Kronprins Haakon. CDOM samples were filtered through a 0.22 μm cartridge filter, and measured on a 1 m liquid waveguide capillary cell (LWCC). Particulate absorption measured on 0.7 μm pore size GFF filters (25 mm diameter, nominally 1 liter filtered volume), and measured on a Lambda 950 UV-Vis-NIR spectrophotometer and QFT-ICAM absorption meter. Non-algal particle absorption is measured after bleaching the filters using H2O2.
Fatty acid-specific stable isotopes of the fatty acids 16:1(n-7), 20:5(n-3) and 22:6(n-3) in pelagic particulate organic matter (PPOM), ice-associated particulate organic matter (IPOM) and pelagic zooplankton species (copepods, krill, amphipods, chaetognaths, appendicularians) collected from the Barents Sea during Nansen Legacy seasonal cruise Q3 in August 2019
Time-series data from moorings covering the Svalbard Branch of the Atlantic Water inflow over the upper continental slope north of Svalbard, Sep 2015 to Sep 2017. The data comprise temperature, salinity and other parameters from CTDs, and water currents from ADCPs.
Data are published as individual time-series files from the different instruments. Both raw and processed ADCP data are published.
Quality
Data processed with standard software from the instrument manufacturers plus additional quality controls to remove bad data points. Details of ADCP processing and quality control are described in the documentation PDF.
Dissolved inorganic nutrients (nitrate, phosphate and silicic acid) from the combined Nansen Legacy and A-TWAIN cruise Mooring service cruise 2021 (cruise 2021713).
The cruise 2021713 in November 2021 aboard the Research Vessel Kronprins Haakon is part of the projects A-TWAIN and the Nansen LEGACY. The A-TWAIN project is focusing on monitoring of the Atlantic Water boundary current north of Svalbard. The Nansen LEGACY is the Norwegian Arctic research community’s joint effort to establish a holistic understanding of a changing marine Arctic climate and ecosystem.
Water column temperature and salinity profiles were obtained with a conductivity-temperature-depth (CTD) sensor system Sea-Bird SBE 911+ mounted on a General Oceanics rosette sampler equipped with 24 Niskin bottles used for seawater sampling of chemical variables in the water column. Samples for the determination of dissolved inorganic nutrients were collected from full water column at a total of six stations starting from the shelf northern Barents Sea to the Nansen Basin along the moored A-TWAIN line. The seawater samples were collected from Niskin bottles in 20 ml plastic HDPE vials (rinsed three times) and preserved with 250 µL chloroform and stored +4C and dark until post-cruise analysis of nitrite (NO2), nitrate (NO3-), phosphate (PO43-), and silicate (Si(OH)4), using spectrophotometry according to standard protocols (Grasshoff et al., 2009; Gundersen et al., 2022) at the chemical laboratory at Institute of Marine Research, Bergen, Norway. Three replicates were analyzed for each sample. The detection limits based on QUASIMEME ring-test are 0.06 µmol/L, 0.5 µmol/L, 0.06 µmol/L and 0.7 µmol/L for NO2, NO3-, PO43-, and Si(OH)4, respectively. The sampling and sample analysis were supported by the Research Council of Norway through the projects The Nansen LEGACY (RCN #276730) and SIOS-InfraNor (RCN #269927).
The data set present the calculated sea ice back-trajectories of 30 sea ice stations conducted in the northern Barents Sea and in western Arctic Basin north of Svalbard between August 2018 to March 2022. The sea ice stations were made during eight research cruises to the area with R/V Kronprins Haakon in the framework of the Nansen Legacy project. For details on the back-tracking methodology and data structure please see the attached metadata file NansenLegacy_sea_ice_stations_back-trajectories.pdf
Power Spectral Densities were calculated using the PAMGuide package (Merchant et al. 2015) in MATLAB. The analysis was performed for the frequency band 10-4000 Hz (1 Hz resolution, 60s spectral averages, 50% overlap, Hanning window). The file is the raw output format provided by PAMGuide so it can be manipulated and visualized using the PAMGuide package in MATLAB.
This dataset is a collection of averaged acid-corrected Chlorophyll a (Chla) and phaeopigments, and inorganic nutrient measurements taken as part of the combined Nansen Legacy and A-TWAIN mooring service cruise onboard RV Kronprins Haakon in November 2019, covering the northern Barents Sea and the Atlantic Water inflow region north of Svalbard. Water samples were taken from the CTD rosette at 11-12 depths throughout the water column for determination of Chla, and inorganic nutrients (nitrate plus nitrite (NO3− plus NO2−), phosphate (PO43-) and silicic acid (Si(OH)4 )/silicate (SiO2);concentrations in mmol m−3). For Chla, triplicates of 200 ml were filtered onto GF/F glass microfiber filters (Whatman, England) and frozen until further processing back in the laboratory at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. At UiT, samples were extracted in 5ml of methanol in darkness at 4C for ca. 24 h (Holm-Hansen and Riemann, 1978) and measured with a Turner Triology (Turner, USA). For inorganic nutrients, water samples of 200 mL were collected in acid-washed plastic bottles or in new and rinsed falcon tubes (3x 50 ml) and immediately frozen at -20C until further processing. Following standard methods (Grasshoff et al., 2009) back in the laboratory at UIT The Arctic University of Norway (Tromsø), three replicates were analyzed for each sample. Samples were analysed with a QuAAtro39 AutoAnalyzer (SEAL Analytical), calibrated with reference sea water (Ocean Scientific International Ltd., UK), with detection limits of 0.02 mmol m−3 for nitrate plus nitrite, 0.01 mmol m−3 for nitrite, 0.004 mmol m−3 for phosphate and 0.02 mmol m−3 for silicate (SiO2). The sampling and sample analysis were supported by the Research Council of Norway through the projects The Nansen LEGACY (RCN #276730) and SIOS-InfraNor (RCN #269927), and the Fram Centre project A-TWAIN, project no. 66050.
Holm-Hansen, O., Riemann, B., 1978. Chlorophyll a determination: improvements in methodology. Oikos 30, 438–447. https://doi.org/10.2307/3543338. Grasshoff, K., Kremling, K., Ehrhardt, M., 2009. Methods of Seawater Analysis. John Wiley&Sons, Edition 3, pp. 632
The data set presents various metadata/general details on sea ice stations of five Nansen Legacy cruises (JC1-2, Q1, Q2, JC2-2 and JC3) conducted during 2018-2022 with the Norwegian ice-going research vessel Kronprins Haakon (KPH) to the northern Barents Sea, area north of Svalbard and further into the central Arctic, namely Nansen and Amundsen basins. During the on-ice work on these cruises, the information associated with organization of sea ice stations was logged. This dataset includes miscellaneous sea ice stations – specific information and documentation such as ice station reports and on-site notes, station maps and plans, photos, data on sea-ice drift during the on-ice work as well as any other materials found relevant for documenting the event. This information is potentially important as supporting for any further interpretation of results from various multidisciplinary activities conducted during the sea ice station work on these cruises. For more details on the dataset and its structure please see the attached dataset overview file NL_ice_stations_dataset_metadata.pdf
The data set presents physical properties of sea ice from sea ice cores recovered during Nansen Legacy cruises conducted during 2018-2022 to the northern Barents Sea, area north of Svalbard and further into the central Arctic, namely Nansen and Amundsen basins. The dataset includes relevant ice core data from six Nansen Legacy cruises conducted with the Norwegian ice-going research vessel Kronprins Haakon where a comprehensive program on sea ice physics was implemented. More details on the data structure and content are presented in the metadata file NL_sea_ice_cores_physics_dataset_metadata.pdf
The dataset includes water column measurements of spectral beam attenuation and absorption coefficients by non-water constituents. Measurements were collected in March 2021 during cruise 2021703, Q1, in the northern Barents Sea as part of the Nansen Legacy project. The WET Labs ac-s spectrophotometer (Seabird Scientific) were used to collect in situ profiles, with a constant descent velocity (∼0.3 m/s) down to a depth of 200 m, or ~10 m above the ocean floor. Measurements were corrected for temperature and salinity effects. The proportional method was used to correct the scattering error of the absorption measurements, assuming zero absorption at 709 nm. The measurements were binned with 2.0 m (dbar) spacing, applying the median to average the data. See the referenced article for more information.
The dataset includes spectral absorption coefficients of colored dissolved organic matter (CDOM), particulate matter and non-algal particles in seawater. Samples were collected in March 2021 as part of cruise 2021703, Q1, in the northern Barents Sea as part of the Nansen Legacy project. Sea water was sampled using Niskin bottles attached to a rosette onboard R/V Kronprins Haakon. CDOM samples were filtered through a 0.22 μm cartridge filter, and measured on a 1 m liquid waveguide capillary cell (LWCC). Particulate absorption measured on 0.7 μm pore size GFF filters (25 mm diameter, nominally 1 liter filtered volume), and measured on a Lambda 950 UV-Vis-NIR spectrophotometer and QFT-ICAM absorption meter. Non-algal particle absorption is measured after bleaching the filters using NaOCl.
The Nansen Legacy/Synoptic Arctic Survey Joint Cruise 2 (JC2-2) was part of the seasonal investigation of the northern Barents Sea and adjacent Arctic Basin. The multidisciplinary cruise was conducted in Aug 24 – Sep 25 of 2021 onboard R/V Kronprins Haakon, and focused on studying the physical, chemical and biological conditions in ocean, atmosphere and sea ice. While in sea ice, we conducted ten regional scale sea ice helicopter-borne surveys of ice conditions using a helicopter-borne electromagnetic instrument (HEM) EM-bird. This dataset presents processed EM-bird data on total snow and sea-ice thickness along the flight tracks.
This is a contribution to the Research Council of Norway project “Nansen Legacy” (https://arvenetternansen.com/), WP RF-1 “Physical drivers”.
Quality
See the attached document “AeN_JC22_2021_09_EMB.pdf” for details on the data acquisition, processing and structure.
Ocean microstructure profiles from a physical oceanography cruise in August-September 2021, in the Nansen and Amundsen Basin on R/V Kronprins Haakon, KH2021710. The data set includes 80 profiles of 1-decibar vertically averaged dissipation rate of turbulent kinetic energy, in situ temperature (ITS-90 scale) and salinity (practical salinity scale).
Quality
Profiles are collected using Sea and Sun Technology vertical microstructure profiler (MSS90L). The first 9 profiles are made with MSS053, the next ones with MSS046. The MSS90L is loosely tethered and is deployed using a winch, electric on board and maunal on the sea ice. Dissipation rate is measured using two airfoil shear probes. Profiles are averages from the two shear probes. The temperature and salinity profiles are measured from the SBE sensors on the same instrument. MSS90L has an unpumped CTD system. Careful corrections for temperature/conductivity sensor time lag and thermal lag were made. Temperature and salinity were corrected after comparison with the ship CTD. An offset of +0.055 is applied for profiles 28:80. Only downcasts from MSS90L are processed using the Sea and Sun technology routines. Resulting profiles are quality controlled, but still require caution from the user. More details are provided in the cruise report.
This dataset is a collection of the acid-corrected chlorophyll A and phaeopigments measurements taken as part of the Nansen Legacy project (www.arvenetternansen.com), as part of the '2021 Seasonal Study Q2' cruise. The data are collected from a single Niskin bottle from station P2 (NLEG04) taken on 2021-05-02T04:31:50.621Z at 33.9920151833333°E and 77.4989514°N. Both total Chlorophyll A and collected after passing through a 10µm filter are enclosed if available.