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Temperature, salinity, and dye concentration from CTD, gliders and other instruments as well as drifter velocity collected in the Chukchi Sea, Beaufort Sea and other locations for the Arctic Tracer Release Experiment (ARCTREX) and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) from 2014-09-09 to 2016-01-20 (NCEI Accession 0168859)

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The goal of the Arctic Tracer Release Experiment (ARCTREX) was to simulate a small oil spill in the Chukchi Sea in order to test the ability of currently available observational technologies and web-based GIS tools to provide real time data and maps to response agencies. We performed a series of Rhodamine dye release experiments during two time periods, from 2014-09-09 to 2014-09-17 and from 2015-09-06 to 2015-09-10, and sampled the resulting plumes with satellite-tracked surface drifters, AUV gliders, an Acrobat towed vehicle, extended-range high frequency radar, ship's TSG, and a VMP-250 vertical microstructure profiler. Data was ingested into NOAA's Environmental Response Management Application ERMA (Arctic ERMA) in near real time for inclusion in their web-based mapping tool. Due to inclusion of drifters that drifted out of the main experimental location, the actual spatial and temporal data spans exceed the spatial (-163E : -159.5E; 70.25N : 71.75N) and temporal (from 2014-09-09 to 2015-09-10) of the main experiment. Data are in various text formats.

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0168859 CHLOROPHYLL A CONCENTRATION Chromophoric Dissolved Organic Matter (CDOM) CONDUCTIVITY CURRENT SPEED - EAST/WEST COMPONENT (U) CURRENT SPEED - NORTH/SOUTH COMPONENT (V) HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE LATITUDE LONGITUDE OPTICAL BACKSCATTER SALINITY SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE turbulent kinetic energy (TKE) dissipation rate WATER DENSITY WATER TEMPERATURE buoy - drifting buoy CTD fluorometer GPS in situ physical Norseman II Rutgers University, Institute for Marine & Coastal Sciences University of Alaska Fairbanks, Institute of Marine Science University of Alaska Fairbanks Arctic Ocean Beaufort Sea Bering Sea Chukchi Sea East Siberian Sea oceanography RUTGERS/IMCS > Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University UAK-F/SFOS/IMS > Institute of Marine Science, School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, University of Alaska Fairbanks EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CHEMISTRY > CHLOROPHYLL EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CHEMISTRY > ORGANIC MATTER EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CIRCULATION > OCEAN CURRENTS EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN OPTICS EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN PRESSURE > WATER PRESSURE EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN TEMPERATURE > SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN TEMPERATURE > WATER TEMPERATURE EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SALINITY/DENSITY > CONDUCTIVITY EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SALINITY/DENSITY > DENSITY EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SALINITY/DENSITY > SALINITY CTD > Conductivity, Temperature, Depth DRIFTING BUOYS > DRIFTING BUOYS FLUOROMETERS > FLUOROMETERS GPS RECEIVERS > GPS RECEIVERS Ships NORSEMAN II (call sign: WDD6688, ICES code: 32QO, 2007-) OCEAN > ARCTIC OCEAN OCEAN > ARCTIC OCEAN > BEAUFORT SEA OCEAN > ARCTIC OCEAN > CHUKCHI SEA OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN > BERING SEA G4J3DW

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