A summary of Woods Hole buoy group moored stations for the Polymode Program

Abstract

The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Buoy Group's field work for the international POLYMODE program consisted of deployment and recovery of seventy of the seventy- eight program moorings on eight research cruises. The mooring program consisted of four distinct experiments conducted from June of 1974 to November of 1979. A brief description of the arrays is provided, the mooring design process for a typical POLYMODE mooring is explained, and brief summaries are given of the WHO! deployment and recovery cruises. Appendix I is a schematic presentation of the chronological mooring history; Appendix Il lists details of the seventy WHO! moorings deployed in the POLYMUDE program and Appendix II I lists details of other WHOI moorings that may be of interest to investigators .