Stratus Ocean Reference Station (20˚S, 85˚W), mooring recovery and deployment cruise, R/V Ron Brown cruise 04-11, December 5 - December 24, 2004

dc.contributor.author Colbo, Keir
dc.contributor.author Weller, Robert A.
dc.contributor.author Lord, Jeffrey
dc.contributor.author Smith, Jason C.
dc.contributor.author Bouchard, Paul R.
dc.contributor.author Fairall, Christopher W.
dc.contributor.author Bradley, Frank
dc.contributor.author Wolfe, Dan
dc.contributor.author Serpetzoglou, Efthymios
dc.contributor.author Tomlinson, Jason
dc.contributor.author Tisandie, Alvaro Gustave Vera
dc.contributor.author Bustos, Juan Francisco Santibanez
dc.coverage.spatial 20°S, 85°W
dc.coverage.spatial Chile
dc.date.accessioned 2005-08-10T18:29:50Z
dc.date.available 2005-08-10T18:29:50Z
dc.date.issued 2005-05
dc.description.abstract The Ocean Reference Station at 20° S, 85° W under the stratus clouds west of northern Chile and Peru is being maintained to provide ongoing, climate-quality records of surface meteorology, of air-sea fluxes of heat, freshwater, and momentum, and of upper ocean temperature, salinity, and velocity variability. The Stratus Ocean Reference Station (ORS Stratus) is supported by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Climate Observation Program. It is recovered and redeployed annually, with cruises that have come between October and December. During the December 2004 cruise of NOAA's R/V Ronald H. Brown to the ORS Stratus site, the primary activities where the recovery of the WHOI surface mooring that had been deployed in November 2003, the deployment of a new WHOI surface mooring at that site, the in-situ calibration of the buoy meteorological sensors by comparison with instrumentation put on board by staff of the NOAA Environmental Technology Laboratory (ETL), and observations of the stratus clouds and lower atmosphere by NOAA ETL and Jason Tomlinson from Texas A&M. The ORS Stratus buoys are equipped with two Improved Meteorological systems, which provide surface wind speed and direction, air temperature, relative humidity, barometric pressure, incoming shortwave radiation, incoming longwave radiation, precipitation rate, and sea surface temperature. The IMET data are made available in near real time using satellite telemetry. The mooring line carries instruments to measure ocean salinity, temperature, and currents. The ETL instrumentation used during the 2004 cruise included cloud radar, radiosonde balloons, and sensors for mean and turbulent surface meteorology. The atmospheric observations also benefited from the C-Band radar mounted on the R/V Ronald H. Brown. In addition to this work, buoy work was done in support of the Chilean Navy Hydrographic and Oceanographic Service (SHOA). A tsunami warning mooring was reinstalled at 75°W, 20°S for SHOA, after the previous buoy installed last year failed. SHOA personnel were onboard to direct the deployment and to gain experience. Four students from the University of Concepcion collected hydrographic data and water samples. One other Chilean student from the University of Chile was involved in the atmospheric sampling program, with a particular focus on the near coast jet. Finally, the cruise hosted a teacher participating in NOAA's Teacher at Sea Program, Mary Esther Cook, who used her experience to develop lessons for her class back in Arkansas. en
dc.description.sponsorship Funding was provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration under Contract Number NA17RJ1225. en
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dc.identifier.citation Colbo, K., Weller, R., Lord, J., Smith, J., Bouchard, P., Fairall, C., Bradley, F., Wolfe, D., Serpetzoglou, E., Tomlinson, J., Tisandie, A. G. V., & Bustos, J. F. S. (2005). Stratus Ocean Reference Station (20 degrees S, 85 degrees W), mooring recovery and deployment cruise, R/V Ron Brown cruise 04-11, December 5 - December 24, 2004. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. https://doi.org/10.1575/1912/74
dc.identifier.doi 10.1575/1912/74
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/1912/74
dc.language.iso en_US en
dc.publisher Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries WHOI Technical Reports en
dc.relation.ispartofseries WHOI-2005-06 en
dc.relation.ispartofseries Upper Ocean Processes Group en
dc.relation.ispartofseries UOP-2005-02 en
dc.subject Air-sea fluxes en
dc.subject Upper ocean variability en
dc.subject Stratus clouds en
dc.subject Ronald H. Brown (Ship) Cruise RB04-11 en
dc.title Stratus Ocean Reference Station (20˚S, 85˚W), mooring recovery and deployment cruise, R/V Ron Brown cruise 04-11, December 5 - December 24, 2004 en
dc.type Technical Report en
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