A year of transient tracers (chlorofluorocarbon 12 and sulfur hexafluoride), noble gases (helium and neon), and tritium in the Arctic Ocean from the MOSAiC expedition (2019–2020)

Heuzé, Céline; Huhn, Oliver; Walter, Maren; Sukhikh, Natalia; Karam, Salar; Körtke, Wiebke; Vredenborg, Myriel; Bulsiewicz, Klaus; Sültenfuß, Jürgen; Fang, Ying-Chih; Mertens, Christian; Rabe, Benjamin; Tippenhauer, Sandra; Allerholt, Jacob; He, Hailun; Kuhlmey, David; Kuznetsov, Ivan; Mallet, Maria

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-5517-2023

Articles | Volume 15, issue 12

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-5517-2023

© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-5517-2023

© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 15, issue 12

Data description paper

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07 Dec 2023

Data description paper |

| 07 Dec 2023

A year of transient tracers (chlorofluorocarbon 12 and sulfur hexafluoride), noble gases (helium and neon), and tritium in the Arctic Ocean from the MOSAiC expedition (2019–2020)

Céline Heuzé, Oliver Huhn, Maren Walter, Natalia Sukhikh, Salar Karam, Wiebke Körtke, Myriel Vredenborg, Klaus Bulsiewicz, Jürgen Sültenfuß, Ying-Chih Fang, Christian Mertens, Benjamin Rabe, Sandra Tippenhauer, Jacob Allerholt, Hailun He, David Kuhlmey, Ivan Kuznetsov, and Maria Mallet

Data sets

Transient tracers (CFC-12 and SF6), noble gases (He and Ne isotopes), and Tritium measurements from POLARSTERN cruise PS122 (MOSAiC, 2019-2020) Oliver Huhn, Céline Heuzé, Maren Walter, Christian Mertens, Klaus Bulsiewicz, and Jürgen Sültenfuß https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.961729

Tritium in snow measurements from POLARSTERN cruise PS122 (MOSAiC, 2019-2020) Oliver Huhn, Céline Heuzé, Maren Walter, Christian Mertens, Klaus Bulsiewicz, and Jürgen Sültenfuß https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.961738

Physical oceanography water bottle samples based on ship CTD during POLARSTERN cruise PS122 S. Tippenhauer, M. Vredenborg, C. Heuzé, et al. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.959965

Physical oceanography based on Ocean City CTD during POLARSTERN cruise PS122 S. Tippenhauer, M. Vredenborg, C. Heuzé, et al. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.959966

The International Bathymetric Chart of the Arctic Ocean Version 4.0 (https://www.gebco.net/about_us/committees_and_groups/scrum/ibcao/) M. Jakobsson, L. A. Mayer, C. Bringensparr, et al. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-020-0520-9

Noble gas (He, Ne isotopes) and transient tracer (CFC-11 and CFC-12) measurements from POLARSTERN cruise PS100 (northeast Greenland, 2016) Oliver Huhn, Monika Rhein, Klaus Bulsiewicz, and Jürgen Sültenfuß https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.931336

Global Ocean Data Analysis Project version 2.2022 (GLODAPv2.2022) (NCEI Accession 0257247) S. K. Lauvset, N. Lange, T. Tanhua, et al. https://doi.org/10.25921/1f4w-0t92

Short summary

Gases dissolved in the ocean water not used by the ecosystem (or "passive tracers") are invaluable to track water over long distances and investigate the processes that modify its properties. Unfortunately, especially so in the ice-covered Arctic Ocean, such gas measurements are sparse. We here present a data set of several passive tracers (anthropogenic gases, noble gases and their isotopes) collected over the full ocean depth, weekly, during the 1-year drift in the Arctic during MOSAiC.