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Charles N. Flagg and Maureen Dunn Marine Sciences Research Center Stony Brook University Stony Brook, NY 11794 E-mail: Charles.Flagg@sunysb.edu |
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The motivation for the Western Arctic Shelf-Basin Interactions (SBI) Program is to increase our understanding of the physical and biological processes affecting the Arctic Ocean in an effort to predict the regions response to global climate change. The interdisciplinary program employs field studies focusing on the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas.
The new icebreaker USCGC Healy is well suited for field research in this area and supports a wide variety of oceanographic and meteorological instrumentation. Included in the ship are two types of Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers (ADCP) that measure relative water velocity beneath the ship, a 150 kHz broadband instrument (BB150) and a 75 kHz Ocean surveyor (OS75). The two instruments compliment one another; the BB150 with its higher frequency is capable of finer vertical resolution in relatively shallow waters (<200m) while the OS75 yields less detailed information but extends to a greaterr range (>400m).
The raw ADCP data acquired by these instruments are processes
at Brookhaven National Laboratory
using the CODAS3 shipboard ADCP processing programs developed by
the University of Hawaii with additional capabilities developed at Brookhaven.
As the data from each cruise is processed, it is made accessible through
this web page which allows for the downloading of user specified portions
from each cruise in either flat-ASCII or matfile formats. Cruise plots are
also available for viewing
Discription of the USCGC Healy's ADCP installations
The operation and maintenance of the oceanographic
equipment on the Healy owes a great deal to the ship's company and the marine
safety technicians, in particular. We wish to express our appreciation
for their efforts.
USCG MSTs during
the 2002 field season: Senor Chief Glen Hendrickson, Chief Mike
Hamerski, MST1 Sean Kuhn, MST2 Bridget Cullers, MST3 Susan Scriven
Shipboard ADCP data collected
for each USCGC Healy cruise is available below.
*** Please note that the data are always subject to review and users are encouraged
to contact us if they encounter problems or find errors.
SBI Cruise 1, May 5 - June 15, 2002
Report on ADCP data collection on HY0201 - Charlie Flagg
HY0201_OS75
Healy cruise HY0201 (5/7/02 to 6/14/02) Ocean Surveyor 75
HY0201_BB150
Healy cruise HY0201 (5/7/02 to 6/14/02) Broadband 150
Keigwin Phase I
, June 15 - July 7, 2002
HY0202_OS75
Healy cruise HY0202 (6/17/02 to 7/06/02) Ocean Surveyor 75
HY0202_BB150
Healy cruise HY0202 (6/18/02 to 7/01/02) Broadband 150
SBI Cruise 2, July 17 - August 26, 2002
Report
on ADCP data collection on HY0203 - John Gunn
HY0203_OS75
Healy cruise HY0203 (7/17/02 to 8/23/02) Ocean Surveyor 75
HY0203_BB150
Healy cruise HY0203 (7/17/02 to 8/23/02) Broadband 150
Keigwin Phase II
, August 26 - September 17, 2002
HY0204_OS75
Healy cruise HY0204 (8/26/02 to 9/17/02) Ocean Surveyor 75
HY0204_BB150
Healy cruise HY0204 (8/26/02 to 9/17/02) Broadband 150
USCGC Healy 0303 Mooring Cruise, September 17 - October 18, 2003
Report on ADCP data collection on
HY0303 - Andreas Munchow
HY0303_OS75
Healy cruise HY0303 (9/11/03 to 10/18/03) Ocean Surveyor 75