Stratus Ocean Reference Station (20˚S, 85˚W) : mooring recovery and deployment cruise, R/V Ronald H. Brown Cruise 06-07, October 9–October 27, 2006

dc.contributor.author Bigorre, Sebastien P.
dc.contributor.author Weller, Robert A.
dc.contributor.author Lord, Jeffrey
dc.contributor.author Whelan, Sean P.
dc.contributor.author Galbraith, Nancy R.
dc.contributor.author Wolfe, Dan
dc.contributor.author Bariteau, Ludovic
dc.contributor.author Ghate, Virendra P.
dc.contributor.author Zajaczkovski, Uriel
dc.contributor.author Vera, Alvaro
dc.contributor.author Maenner, Stacy
dc.contributor.author Hoyt, Brett
dc.coverage.spatial 20°S, 85°W
dc.coverage.spatial Chile
dc.date.accessioned 2007-04-10T16:05:42Z
dc.date.available 2007-04-10T16:05:42Z
dc.date.issued 2007-02
dc.description.abstract The Ocean Reference Station at 20°S, 85°W under the stratus clouds west of northern Chile 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 Administrations (NOAA) Climate Observation Program. It is recovered and redeployed annually, with cruises that have come between October and December. During the October 2006 cruise of NOAA's R/V Ronald H. Brown to the ORS Stratus site, the primary activities where recovery of the Stratus 6 WHOI surface mooring that had been deployed in October 2005, deployment of a new (Stratus 7) WHOI surface mooring at that site, in-situ calibration of the buoy meteorological sensors by comparison with instrumentation pub on board by staff of the NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL, formerly ETL), and observations of the stratus clouds and lower atmosphere by NOAA ESRL. A buoy for the Pacific tsunami warning system was also serviced in collaboration with the Hydrographic and Oceanographic Service of the Chilean Navy (SHOA). The old DART (Deep-Ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunami) buoy was recovered and a new one deployed which carried IMET sensors and subsurface oceanographic instruments. Argo floats and drifters were also launched and CTD casts carried out during the cruise. The ORS Stratus buoys are equipped with two Improved Meteorological (IMET) 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 ESRL instrumentation used during the 2006 cruise included cloud radar, radiosonde balloons, and sensors for mean and turbulent surface meteorology. Stratus 7 also received a new addition to its set of sensors: a partial CO2 detector from the Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL). Aerosol measurements were also carried out onboard RHB by personnel of the University of Hawaii. Finally, the cruise hosted a teacher participating in NOAA's Teacher at Sea Program. en
dc.description.sponsorship Funding was provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration under Grant No. NA17RJ1223. en
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dc.identifier.citation Bigorre, S., Weller, R., Lord, J., Whelan, S., Galbraith, N., Wolfe, D., Bariteau, L., Ghate, V., Zajaczkovski, U., Vera, A., Maenner, S., & Hoyt, B. (2007). Stratus Ocean Reference Station (20°S, 85°W): mooring recovery and deployment cruise, R/V Ronald H. Brown Cruise 06-07, October 9–October 27, 2006. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. https://doi.org/10.1575/1912/1565
dc.identifier.doi 10.1575/1912/1565
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/1912/1565
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-2007-01 en
dc.relation.ispartofseries Upper Ocean Processes Group en
dc.relation.ispartofseries UOP-2007-01 en
dc.subject STRATUS en
dc.subject Upper ocean en
dc.subject Air-sea interaction en
dc.subject Ronald H. Brown (Ship) Cruise RB06-07 en
dc.title Stratus Ocean Reference Station (20˚S, 85˚W) : mooring recovery and deployment cruise, R/V Ronald H. Brown Cruise 06-07, October 9–October 27, 2006 en
dc.type Technical Report en
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