Open AccessPhysical Process Cruise 2018
Author(s) -
Ilker Fer,
Frank Nilsen,
Anthony Bosse,
Eva Falck,
Trygve Olav Fossum,
Lars Robert Hole,
Zoé Koenig,
Eivind Kolås,
Aleksander D Libæk,
Ben Lincoln,
Martin Ludvigsen,
Marika Marnela,
Malte Müller,
Petter Norgren,
Inger Lise Næss,
Jean Rabault,
Andrew Siedl,
Ragnheid Skogseth,
Inga B Utkilen
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
the nansen legacy report series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2703-7525
DOI - 10.7557/nlrs.5503
Subject(s) - cruise , sea ice , oceanography , stratification (seeds) , geology , transect , physical oceanography , environmental science , meteorology , climatology , geography , seed dormancy , botany , germination , dormancy , biology
The cruise KH 2018-709 aboard the Research Vessel Kronprins Haakon was the second process cruise of the project the Nansen Legacy. The cruise contributed to task T1-2, on process studies to investigate the atmospheric, oceanographic, radiative and other physical controls on sea ice and stratification, with a general aim to identify and quantify the processes that control the heat budget north of Svalbard and in the Barents Sea. The cruise aimed to deploy oceanographic moorings and gliders, an AUV, a remotely piloted unmanned aircraft, controlled meteorological balloons, collect underway measurements from ship-mounted ocean current profilers, wind profilers, radiometer and wave sensors, and collect ocean stratification, currents, and microstructure profiles along selected transects across the north Spitsbergen shelf and slope. Additionally, wave sensors were deployed at ice floes from ice edge into pack ice. This report provides an overview of the methods employed and the data collected.