Temperature and salinity profile data from CTD casts from the icebreaker ODEN during the Lomonosov Ridge off Greenland (LOMROG) expedition in 2007 (NCEI Accession 0093533)

The CTD data were taken during the expedition "Lomonosov Ridge off Greenland" (LOMROG) in summer 2007 with the Swedish icebreaker Oden. The LOMROG expedition involved 31 onboard scientists from Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Canada and USA. The main scientific focus of the expedition was to study the Lomonosov Ridge area north of Greenland including seafloor mapping, seismics and sediment coring. In addition the expedition included oceanographic and sea ice research components. A more detailed description of the expedition is provided in the cruise report (available by contacting the data set contributor).

The oceanographic component of LOMROG focused on constraining and understanding the pathways of the Atlantic water and deep water across the Lomonosov Ridge between the Eurasian Basin and Canadian Basin and through the western Fram Strait. The oceanographic program included CTD measurements and water sampling with chemical analyses including CFCs, oxygen, mercury, dissolved inorganic carbon/pH/total alkalinity, nutrients, oxygen-18, and salinity.

CTD and water sampling was performed at 27 stations in the western Eurasian Basin mainly along the Eurasian Basin flank of the Lomonosov Ridge near Greenland, along the Northern Greenland continental shelf slope, and a section from the East Greenland continental margin to the Gakkel Ridge.