Table of Contents

• Coverage
• Dataset Description
  • Methods & Sampling
  • Data Processing Description
• Data Files
• Parameters
• Instruments
• Deployments
• Project Information
• Program Information
• Funding

SO GLOBEC Moored Array, Drifter, and Float Component

PIs: Bob Beardsley, Dick Limeburner, Breck Owen

Surface meteorological data collected at Kirkwood Island

Location 68.34S - 69.01W, elev 30m (source http://amrc.ssec.wisc.edu/aws/)

Fieldname descriptions

Date of submission: 12/07/04

Source File: SOG_aws_rawNEW2.mat (from Mike Caruso)

Processing by Beardsley group:
Edit barometric pressure, air temp., relative humidity, and wind speed by:
(a) removing values outside bounds,
(b) convert wind speed and direction (met convention) into east and north wind components u,v (ocean convention),
(c) removing wild points, (csub1) average resulting edited data in 1 hr time bins to create uniform hourly time series,
(d) truncating each variable into common time base,
(e) compute wind stress, sensible heat flux and latent heat flux using COARE26, with SST set to 0 and sensor height 12 m).
Save times tuv0 when raw wind speed = 0 (prop stuck due to icing, etc). [edit_aws_rawD.m, awsintA.m, coare26v.m] (not served)

Sample Rate: 1 hr

Records: 16993

Period: Start: 05/22/2001 00 GMT
Stop: 04/30/2003 00 GMT

Last updated March 1, 2006 

Surface meteorological data collected at Kirkwood Island.
Location 68.34S - 69.01W, elev 30m (source http://amrc.ssec.wisc.edu/aws/)

Processing by Beardsley group:
Edit barometric pressure, air temp., relative humidity, and wind speed by:
(a) removing values outside bounds,
(b) convert wind speed and direction (met convention) into east and north wind components u,v (ocean convention),
(c) removing wild points, (csub1) average resulting edited data in 1 hr time bins to create uniform hourly time series,
(d) truncating each variable into common time base,
(e) compute wind stress, sensible heat flux and latent heat flux using COARE26, with SST set to 0 and sensor height 12 m).
Save times tuv0 when raw wind speed = 0 (prop stuck due to icing, etc). [edit_aws_rawD.m, awsintA.m, coare26v.m]

The fundamental objectives of United States Global Ocean Ecosystems Dynamics (U.S. GLOBEC) Program are dependent upon the cooperation of scientists from several disciplines. Physicists, biologists, and chemists must make use of data collected during U.S. GLOBEC field programs to further our understanding of the interplay of physics, biology, and chemistry. Our objectives require quantitative analysis of interdisciplinary data sets and, therefore, data must be exchanged between researchers. To extract the full scientific value, data must be made available to the scientific community on a timely basis.

U.S. GLOBEC (GLOBal ocean ECosystems dynamics) is a research program organized by oceanographers and fisheries scientists to address the question of how global climate change may affect the abundance and production of animals in the sea.

The U.S. GLOBEC Program currently had major research efforts underway in the Georges Bank / Northwest Atlantic Region, and the Northeast Pacific (with components in the California Current and in the Coastal Gulf of Alaska). U.S. GLOBEC was a major contributor to International GLOBEC efforts in the Southern Ocean and Western Antarctic Peninsula (WAP).