| Contributors | Affiliation | Role |
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| Weller, Robert A. | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) | Principal Investigator |
| Chandler, Cynthia L. | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI BCO-DMO) | BCO-DMO Data Manager |
Meteorological data from surface mooring at 15.5N, 61.5E from October 1994 until October 1995
See Platform deployments for cruise specific documentation
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mooring_met.csv (Comma Separated Values (.csv), 9.87 MB) MD5:f71b70fa254127bba8a2b61063f89d69 Primary data file for dataset ID 2595 |
| Parameter | Description | Units |
| year | year of observation, either 1994 or 1995 | |
| yrday | Day of year for 1994, January 1 00:00 is day 1.0 observations begin October 16, 1994 (day 289) Note that this number con tinues to increment by one until end of observations and does not initialize to 1 on January 1, 1995 | |
| temp_air | Adjusted air temperature | degrees C |
| temp_surf | Sea surface temperature from 0.17m Tpod | degress C |
| humid_rel | Relative humidty (from VAWR) | percent |
| humid_spec | Specific humidity (from IMET) | grams/kilogram |
| wind_sp_E | East wind | meters/second |
| wind_sp_N | North wind | meters/second |
| press_bar | Barometric pressure | millibars |
| rad_in_sw | Incoming shortwave radiation | Watts/meter^2 |
| rad_in_lw | Incoming longwave radiation | Watts/meter^2 |
| precip | Precipitation rate | meters/second |
| Dataset-specific Instrument Name | Vector-Averaging Wind Recorder |
| Generic Instrument Name | Vector-Averaging Wind Recorder |
| Generic Instrument Description | The Vector-Averaging Wind Recorder (VAWR) is a system designed by researchers at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) to make surface meteorological measurements. The standard WHOI Vector Averaging Wind Recorder (VAWR) of the late 1980s through early 1990s was mounted on a toroid buoy (Dean and Beardsley, 1988). In addition to wind speed and direction, the VAWR could also be configured to record water temperature and conductivity data from sensors mounted at 1 meter depth on the mooring bridle of the buoy (Trask et al., 1995).
References:
Dean, JP and RC Beardsley. 1988. A vector-averaging wind recorder (VWAR) system for surface meteorological measurements in CODE (Coastal Ocean Dynamics Experiment). Published by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Woods Hole Mass. Series: CODE technical report no. 44., WHOI-88-20, WHOI Technical report (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution). 74 pp.
Trask, Richard P.; Way, Bryan S.; Ostrom, William M.; Allsup, Geoffrey P.; Weller, Robert A. 1995. Arabian Sea mixed layer dynamics experiment : mooring deployment cruise report R/V Thomas Thompson cruise number 40, 11 October-25 October 1994. (WHOI DLA URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1912/482) |
| Dataset-specific Instrument Name | Improved Meteorological Recorder |
| Generic Instrument Name | Improved Meteorological Recorder |
| Generic Instrument Description | An IMET Recorder is an instrument package that can be mounted on a ship or buoy to record mean weather data including air and sea-surface temperature, incoming short and long-wave radiation, precipitation, humidity, wind velocity and barometric pressure. Each sensor in the system communicates digitally and returns calibrated values to a central data recorder. |
| Dataset-specific Instrument Name | Eppley Longwave Radiometer |
| Generic Instrument Name | Eppley Longwave Radiometer |
| Generic Instrument Description | The Eppley Precision Infrared Radiometer (PIR) pyrgeometer measures longwave (infrared) radiation. It is housed in a weatherproof titanium canister that has been painted with a very flat black paint that absorbs radiation. A small glass dome at the top of the instrument is covered with an 'interference coating' which allows only infrared radiation to come through. Light levels are detected as temperature changes creating voltages in fine wire coil detectors. more from Eppley Labs |
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| Platform | WHOI surface mooring |
| Start Date | 1995-04-15 |
| End Date | 1995-10-19 |
| Description | Woods Hole Surface Mooring Deployment 2
A surface mooring was deployed off the coast of Oman along the climatological axis of the Findlater Jet from October 1994 to October 1995.
The location chosen for the surface mooring, 15.5°N, 61.5°E, was close to the climatological maximum in the wind speed during the height of the Southwest Monsoon. Two separate mooring deployments, the first beginning October 15, 1994, and ending April 20, 1995, and the second starting April 22, 1995, and ending October 10, 1995, were used so that a second set of freshly calibrated sensors was deployed prior to the onset of the Southwest Monsoon.
Reference:
Weller, R.A., M.F. Baumgartner, S.A. Josey, A.S. Fischer and J.C. Kindle (1998). Atmospheric forcing in the Arabian Sea during 1994-1995:observations and comparisons with climatology and models. Deep-Sea Research II, 45(10-11): 1961-1999, U.S. JGOFS Contribution No. 419. |
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| Platform | WHOI surface mooring |
| Start Date | 1994-10-16 |
| End Date | 1995-10-19 |
| Description | Woods Hole Surface Mooring Deployment 1
A surface mooring was deployed off the coast of Oman along the climatological axis of the Findlater Jet from October 1994 to October 1995. The location chosen for the surface mooring, 15.5°N, 61.5°E, was close to the climatological maximum in the wind speed during the height of the Southwest Monsoon. Two separate mooring deployments, the first beginning October 15, 1994, and ending April 20, 1995, and the second starting April 22, 1995, and ending October 10, 1995, were used so that a second set of freshly calibrated sensors was deployed prior to the onset of the Southwest Monsoon.
Reference:
Weller, R.A., M.F. Baumgartner, S.A. Josey, A.S. Fischer and J.C. Kindle (1998). Atmospheric forcing in the Arabian Sea during 1994-1995:observations and comparisons with climatology and models. Deep-Sea Research II, 45(10-11): 1961-1999, U.S. JGOFS Contribution No. 419. |
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| Platform | R/V Thomas G. Thompson |
| Start Date | 1994-10-11 |
| End Date | 1994-10-25 |
| Description | Mooring Deployment Cruise |
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| Platform | R/V Thomas G. Thompson |
| Start Date | 1995-04-14 |
| End Date | 1995-04-29 |
| Description | Mooring Recovery and Redeployment Cruise |
The U.S. Arabian Sea Expedition which began in September 1994 and ended in January 1996, had three major components: a U.S. JGOFS Process Study, supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF); Forced Upper Ocean Dynamics, an Office of Naval Research (ONR) initiative; and shipboard and aircraft measurements supported by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The Expedition consisted of 17 cruises aboard the R/V Thomas Thompson, year-long moored deployments of five instrumented surface buoys and five sediment-trap arrays, aircraft overflights and satellite observations. Of the seventeen ship cruises, six were allocated to repeat process survey cruises, four to SeaSoar mapping cruises, six to mooring and benthic work, and a single calibration cruise which was essentially conducted in transit to the Arabian Sea.
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