Dataset: mooring_met
Deployment: TT046

Meteorological data from surface mooring

Principal Investigator:

Dr Robert A. Weller (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, WHOI)

BCO-DMO Data Manager:

Cynthia L. Chandler (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, WHOI BCO-DMO)

Project:

U.S. JGOFS Arabian Sea (Arabian Sea)

Version:

November 7, 1997

Deployment Synonyms:

TTN046, TN046, TTN-046

Version Date:

1997-11-07

Data URL:

https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset-deployment/451673/data

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Description

Meteorological data from surface mooring at 15.5N, 61.5E from October 1994 until October 1995

Methods & Sampling

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Instruments

Eppley Longwave Radiometer

Supplied Description:

Instrument Type

Generic Name: Eppley Longwave Radiometer

Acronym: Eppley PIR

Community Identifier: http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/L22/current/TOOL0083/

Generic 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

Improved Meteorological Recorder

Supplied Description:

Instrument Type

Generic Name: Improved Meteorological Recorder

Acronym: IMET

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

Generic 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.

Vector-Averaging Wind Recorder

Supplied Description:

Instrument Type

Generic Name: Vector-Averaging Wind Recorder

Acronym: VAWR

Community Identifier: http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/L05/current/101/

Generic 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)

Parameters

Supplied Name	Supplied description	Supplied Units	Standard Name
year	year of observation, either 1994 or 1995		year
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		no_bcodmo_term
temp_air	Adjusted air temperature	degrees C	temp_air
temp_surf	Sea surface temperature from 0.17m Tpod	degress C	no_bcodmo_term
humid_rel	Relative humidty (from VAWR)	percent	no_bcodmo_term
humid_spec	Specific humidity (from IMET)	grams/kilogram	no_bcodmo_term
wind_sp_E	East wind	meters/second	no_bcodmo_term
wind_sp_N	North wind	meters/second	no_bcodmo_term
press_bar	Barometric pressure	millibars	press_bar
rad_in_sw	Incoming shortwave radiation	Watts/meter^2	no_bcodmo_term
rad_in_lw	Incoming longwave radiation	Watts/meter^2	no_bcodmo_term
precip	Precipitation rate	meters/second	no_bcodmo_term

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Deployment: TT046