Instrument: Weather Transmitter

Acronym: WXT520

External Identifier: skos:broadMatch: http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/L05/current/102/

Description

The ship-mounted Vaisala Weather Transmitter WXT520 measures: Wind speed and direction; Liquid precipitation: rainfall, duration, intensity; Barometric pressure; Air temperature and Relative humidity. (for more information see http://www.vaisala.com/en/products/multiweathersensors/Pages/WXT520.aspx)

Datasets (13)

Dataset Name	PI-Supplied Description	PI-Supplied Name
Alongtrack data collected continuously by the ship's underway acquisition system from R/V Knorr cruise KN207-01 in the southern tip of Nova Scotia to Bermuda in 2012 (SargassoSeaLipids project)	Vaisala WXT520 MET sensors mounted on both port and starborad side of the forward mast 15.5 meters above the water line.	Weather Transmitter
Alongtrack data collected continuously by the ship's underway acquisition system from R/V Knorr cruise KN207-03 in the North Atlantic (transect from Ponta Delgada, Azores to Reykjavik, Iceland) in 2012 (NA-VICE project)	Vaisala WXT520 MET sensors mounted on both port and starborad side of the forward mast 15.5 meters above the water line.	Weather Transmitter
Alongtrack data from R/V Atlantis AT15-61 in the Eastern Tropical South Pacific from January 2010 (Syne_ETSP project)		Weather transmitter
Alongtrack data collected continuously by the ship's underway acquisition system from R/V Oceanus OC473 in the western North Atlantic, 35-50 degrees North in 2011 (OAPS project)	Vaisala WXT520 weather transmitters mounted on the forward mast, one each on port side and stbd side, 14.5 meters above sea level.	Weather Transmitter
Alongtrack data from RV/Tioga cruise TI668, full water-column to the Wilkinson Basin, Gulf of Maine, May 2013 (Gulf of Maine Pteropods project, GoME OA Pteropods project)		WXT520
Alongtrack data from RV/Tioga cruise TI700 to the Gulf of Maine, August 2013 (Gulf of Maine Pteropods project)		WXT520
Alongtrack data from RV/Tioga cruise TI715 to the Gulf of Maine, October 2013 (Gulf of Maine Pteropods project)		WXT520
Alongtrack data from R/V Tioga TI725 in the Gulf of Maine from January 2014 (Gulf of Maine Pteropods project)		WXT520
Alongtrack data from R/V Tioga TI729 in the Gulf of Maine from January 2014 (Gulf of Maine Pteropods project)		WXT520
Alongtrack data from RV/Tioga cruise TI746 to the Gulf of Maine, April 2014 (Gulf of Maine Pteropods project)		WXT520
Underway data from R/V Atlantis AT26-15 in the Gulf of Mexico from May 2014 (SEEPC project)		WXT520
Underway data from cruise R/V Endeavor EN531 in the Blake Ridge, Cape Fear Diapir from Aug. 2013 (SEEPC project)
Underway data from cruise Atlantis 2101 from R/V Oceanus OC471-02 in the Blake Ridge, Cape Fear Diapir from August 2011 (SEEPC project)		WXT520