| Description |
To measure and to model the variability of fluxes between the Arctic Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean with a view on implementing a longer term system of critical measurements needed to understand the highlatitude oceans steering role in decadal climate variability.
Exchanges between the North Atlantic and the Arctic Ocean result in the most dramatic water mass conversions in the World Ocean: Warm and saline Atlantic waters flowing through the Nordic Seas into the Arctic Ocean are separated by cooling and freezing into shallow fresh waters (and ice) and saline deep waters. The outflow from the Nordic Seas to the south provides the initial driving of the global thermohaline circulation cell, the one to the north is of major impact to the large scale circulation of the Arctic Ocean Measuring these fluxes is a major requirement to quantify the turnover-rates within the large circulation cells of the Arctic and the Atlantic Oceans and a basic condition to understand the role of these ocean areas in climate variability on interannual to decadal scales.
For this purpose a consortium of 18 institutions with long standing experience in high latitude observations and modelling propose to obtain 3 year synoptic time series of water and property transports in the key passages from the Arctic Ocean through the Nordic Seas into the Atlantic Ocean. These measurements will provide integral information on the water mass formation processes in the Northern Seas and on the forces driving the circulation between the different basins. This makes them especially suitable for the validation of large scale circulation models.
Its results will be used to develop an efficient observational design to measure time series resolving up to decadal time scales, which are considered to be the most crucial measurements for advancing our predictive capabilities for shorter term climate changes.
| Data information |
The CTD station summary and the bottle station summary provides a list of all the stations where VEINS data was sampled.
The CTD limits file and the bottle limits file provides a max and min valies for all parameters in the datasets.
Also, take a look at the Cruise summery reports to get an overview of the cruises involved with the VEINS project.
| Data download |
| Bottle & reduced CTD | CTD | |
|---|---|---|
| ICES | VEI_bot_ice.zip | VEI_ctd_ice.zip |
| CSV1 | VEI_bot_csv.zip | VEI_ctd_csv.zip |
| ODV2 | VEI_bot_odv.zip | VEI_ctd_odv.zip |
All dataset files are zipped with winzip.