Arctic Oceanographic Observations (AREX) (AREX)

Updated 2012-08-28

Since 1988 the regular summer hydrographic observations in the Nordic Seas and Fram Strait have been collected by the Institute of Oceanology Polish Academy of Sciences (IOPAS). Observational activities were carried out under several national programs, in the frames of EU projects VEINS, ASOF-N and DAMOCLES and within Polish-Norwegian cooperation in the AWAKE project. The main objectives are:  to study the long-term variability of water mass distribution, their physical and chemical properties and different pathways in the Nordic Seas;  to investigate the Atlantic water (AW) circulation in the Nordic Seas and its inflow into the Arctic Ocean;  to recognize the possible feedbacks between the Atlantic water variability and local and global climate changes.

Time frame

Status
Ongoing
Project time span
1988 -
Data collection
1988 -
Data processing
1988 -
Data reporting
1988 -

Contact information

Contact person
- -
Address
Waldemar Walczowski
Email
lp.adg.napoi@swozclaw

Parameters and Media

Parameter groups measured/observed/modelled
Media sampled/studied/modelled
Seawater/suspended particulate matter

Geography

Regions studied
North Atlantic
North Atlantic
North Atlantic
Stations or areas where observations are made

R/V Oceania

Data availability

Samples/specimens archived in specimen banks?
No

Methods & Procedures

Procedures and methodology used for, e.g., sampling and sample storage, sample pretreatment, extraction and analysis, including which laboratories are involved, references to methods employed, etc.

Basic hydrography (temperature, salinity, oxygen, nutrients), sea currents (continuous ADCP measurements and on stations LADCP profiles). All measurements at the fixed oceanographic sections (see map), repeated annually within the period 20 June to 20 July.

Additional Information

Is this a bi- AND multi-lateral project (i.e. a project involving cooperation between different countries)?
No
Other institutes involved in the project

Institute of Oceanology of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IO-PAN) (IOPAN)

Is this project reporting to other organizations/programmes?

ASOF-N (ASOF-N), Developing Arctic Modeling and Observing Capabilities for Long-term Environmental Studies (DAMOCLES), Arctic Climate and Environment of the Nordic Seas and the Svalbard – Greenland Area (AWAKE), Variability of Exchanges in the Northern Seas (VEINS)

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