(Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 1983-02)
Trask, Richard P.; Briscoe, Melbourne G.
OCEANUS cruise number 119 (6-14 May, 1982) was the seventh in a series
of cruises to the Long Term Upper Ocean Study (LOTUS) area centered at
34°N, 70°W. During this cruise five moorings were set at the LOTUS site;
four for the LOTUS experiment and one, a profiling current meter mooring,
for C.S. Draper Labs - MIT. In addition an engineering mooring was set
at 39°30'N, 70°W. Two XBT sections were made along 70°W between 40°N and
33°N during the trip to and from the LOTUS site. Five CTD stations were
also completed in the LOTUS area.
Part I of this report is a summary of the major cruise activities and
part II presents the hydrographic data (CTD and XBT) collected during the
cruise.
(Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 1983-09)
Deser, Clara; Weller, Robert A.; Briscoe, Melbourne G.
Meteorological data have been gathered from a moored surface buoy at
34°N, 70°W in the Long Term Upper Ocean Study (LOTUS) experiment. The
meteorological results from the first year of LOTUS are encouraging; the data
returned from redundant sensors agree closely. Surface heat fluxes calculated
from the observations show the annual cycle of heat transfer to the mixed
layer.
This report documents the meteorological sensors on the LOTUs-3
(May 1982-october 1982) and LOTUS-4 (November 1982-March 1983) surface buoys.
It describes in detail the telemetry of the meteorological data via the ARGOS
satellite system. The measurements returned from LOTUS-3 are presented and
evaluated. Monthly heat fluxes at the sea surface are computed using the bulk
formulas and compared with the long-term means. The errors in the heat fluxes
have been estimated.
