Dataset: Underway - U10UstarFlux

Name: Underway wind and temperature measurements from the Tangaroa Automatic Weather Station (AWS) from R/V Tangaroa cruise VDT0410 in the South East of New Zealand, S.W. Bounty Trough in 2004 (SAGE project)
Published: 2010-04-02
Keywords: oceans

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Spatial Extent: N:-41.1366333 E:178.5279 S:-48.0144167 W:170.6257333

Project:

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

Program:

Iron Synthesis (FeSynth)

United States Surface Ocean Lower Atmosphere Study (U.S. SOLAS)

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)

Version:

02April2010

Version Date:

2010-04-02

Validated:

Yes

Current State:

Final no updates expected

Underway wind and temperature measurements from the Tangaroa Automatic Weather Station (AWS) from R/V Tangaroa cruise VDT0410 in the South East of New Zealand, S.W. Bounty Trough in 2004 (SAGE project)

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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

Refer to SAGE Voyage Report

Data 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

Data Files

File
U10UstarFlux.csv (Comma Separated Values (.csv), 448.38 KB) MD5:bb90df3d3864d0f678e36b39302d4795 Primary data file for dataset ID 3333

More Information about this dataset

Funding Sources

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

Deployments

Deployment	Synonyms	Start Date	Platform	Investigator
VDT0410	SOLAS-ANZ	2004-03-17	R/V Tangaroa	Mike Harvey (Chief Scientist)	data info

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

Date and time formats are described in python strftime() syntax.

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

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Dataset: Underway - U10UstarFlux