1. Vertical Profile Observations
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Vertical Profile Observations
Cristina Luis, Norwegian Meteorological Institute

2. Vertical profiles? What profile data is available for the arctic?
When and where?
Are the depths suitable for diurnal warming study?
Other things people want to know?

3. About the data
This data from the Institute of Marine Research ( Sjur R. Lid)
Also available from the MyOcean In-situ TAC
Dabbled with ~6 years of data ( )
Types of sources in data set include:
Profiler-gliders, vessels, drifters, mooring, other/etc

4. Profilers and gliders
Includes Argo floats (mostly APEX profiling floats), coastal profilers and gliders

5. Vessels Research vessels, Volunteer Observer Ships and fishing boats
e.g. IMR transects --->

6. Data source types, cont.
drifters – drifting buoys, many are ice drifters
mooring – mostly Ice-Tethered Profilers (ITP)
etc – other or unknown, includes elephant seals and “unknown sea mammal”

7. Where are the profiles?

8. Profiler-gliders

9. Vessels

10. Etc/Other

11. Mooring

13. Example profiles (upper 20m)

18. Variability in one location
Temperature profiles from same point along transect, different dates

19. Additional transects
From:

21. Continuous Plankton Recorders
SST data available from Continuous Plankton Recorder network