Dataset: Underway - U10UstarFlux
Deployment: VDT0410

Underway wind and temperature data from the Tangaroa Automatic Weather Station (AWS)

Principal Investigator:

Murray Smith (New Zealand National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, NIWA)

BCO-DMO Data Manager:

Stephen R. Gegg (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, WHOI BCO-DMO)

Project:

Surface-Ocean Lower-Atmosphere Studies Air-Sea Gas Exchange (Experiment) (SAGE)

Current State:

Final no updates expected

Version:

02April2010

Deployment Synonyms:

SOLAS-ANZ

Version Date:

2010-04-02

Data URL:

https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset-deployment/453040/data

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Description

Underway wind and temperature data from the Tangaroa Automatic Weather Station (AWS)

These data contain wind and temperature data from the Tangaroa Automatic Weather Station (AWS)
with the following corrections:
1) Wind translated to the standard 10m height (versus the measurement height of 25m)

2) Wind has been calculated for neutral stability using the Fairall et al (2003)
TOGA COARE code (version 3.0).

3) A correction for airflow distortion around around the ship has been made following
Popinet, Smith, Stevens (2004) JAOT 21, 1575-1589

4) A seasurface skin temperature from M-AERI has been used in the COARE calculations

Methods & Sampling

Dataset acquisition description

Refer to SAGE Voyage Report

Data Processing Description

Dataset Processing Description

BCO-DMO Processing Notes
Generated from original file SAGE_U10UstarFlux_AFC.dat

BCO-DMO Edits
- date reformatted to YYYYMMDD
- time reformatted to HHMMSS
- 'NaN' replaced with 'nd'
- parameter names modified to conform to BCO-DMO convention

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Funding

Award Number	Funding Source
C01X0204	New Zealand Foundation for Research, Science and Technology
C01X0223	New Zealand Foundation for Research, Science and Technology
unknown SAGE ISAT	New Zealand International Science and Technology Fund
unknown SAGE NSF	National Science Foundation

Instruments

Meteorological Station

Supplied Description:

MET station aboard R/V Tangaroa.

Instrument Type

Generic Name: Meteorological Station

Acronym: MET Station

Community Identifier: http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/L05/current/102/

Generic Description:

MET station systems are designed to record meteorological information on board ships or mounted on moorings. These are commonly referred to as EMET (Electronic Meteorological Packages) or IMET (Improved Meteorological Packages) systems. These sensor packages record measurements of sea surface temperature and salinity, air temperature, wind speed and direction, barometric pressure, solar and long-wave radiation, humidity and precipitation.

Parameters

Supplied Name	Supplied description	Supplied Units	Standard Name
date_local	Date (NZST)	YYYYMMDD	date_local
time_local	Time (NZST)	HHMMSS	time_local
lon	longitude (West is negative)	decimal degrees	lon
lat	latitude (South is negative)	decimal degrees	lat
temp_air	Air Temperature	degrees celcius	temp_air
temp_water	Water Temperature	degrees celcius	no_bcodmo_term
RH	Relative Humidity	percentage	no_bcodmo_term
Udas	Udas	kt	no_bcodmo_term
Direction	Direction	degrees	no_bcodmo_term
U10_with_stability	U10(with stability) (kt) (To convert to m/s: multiply by 0.5144)	kt	no_bcodmo_term
Ustar	Ustar	m/s	no_bcodmo_term
Sensible_Heat	Sensible Heat	W/m^2	no_bcodmo_term
Latent_Heat	Latent Heat	W/m^2	no_bcodmo_term

Database

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Dataset: Underway - U10UstarFlux
Deployment: VDT0410

Dataset acquisition description

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Database

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Dataset: Underway - U10UstarFluxDeployment: VDT0410

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Dataset: Underway - U10UstarFlux
Deployment: VDT0410