CLIMODE surface mooring Surface meteorology 1 minute sampling (wind, barometric pressure, air and sea temp, incoming SW and LW, precipitation, relative humidity) Bulk formulae fluxes (heat, freshwater, momentum) Turbulent fluxes - Jim Edson Near-surface velocity and shear 10 and 20 m cm Temperature in upper 660 m Temperature/conductivity at 1, 5, 341, 662 m Deploy Nov 2005, recover/deploy Nov 2006, Recover Nov 2007
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2 ASIMET with Argos telemetry 1 set standalone ASIMET Edson flux package 1m T/C 5m T/C 10m Nortek cm 15 m Temp 20 m Nortek cm 40 m Temp 80 m Temp 120 m Temp 160 m Temp 200 m Temp 240 m Temp 280 m Temp 341 m T/C 360 m Temp 400 m Temp 440 m Temp 520 m Temp 560 m Temp 600 m Temp 662 m Temp Fairing from surface to 983 meters
Deploy in the Gulf Stream x
RV Oceanus cruises Nov 9-27, 2005 Woods Hole - Woods Hole Nov 2006 18 days Oceanus Nov 2007 14 days Oceanus
Flux buoy Add 3rd ASIMET System for redundancy Cold-room testing of ASIMETS and flux system Heaters for rain gauges
Flux mooring Surface met accuracies Incoming LW daily 4 W m-2 Incoming SW daily 6 W m-2 Relative humidity daily 1% Air temperature daily 0.1°C SST daily 0.1°C Barometric pressure daily 0.2 mb Wind speed, direction daily 1%, 5° Precipitation daily 10% Surface flux accuracies (monthly, annual) Net LW 4 W m-2 Net SW 5 W m-2 Sensible 1.5 W m-2 Latent 5 W m-2 Total net heat 8 W m-2 Momentum 0.007 N m-2
Flux mooring Available in near-real time Hourly averages from two ASIMET systems Surface meteorology SST (1 m) Salinity (1 m)