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    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

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    Date
    2007-02
    Author
    Bigorre, Sebastien P.  Concept link
    Weller, Robert A.  Concept link
    Lord, Jeffrey  Concept link
    Whelan, Sean P.  Concept link
    Galbraith, Nancy R.  Concept link
    Wolfe, Dan  Concept link
    Bariteau, Ludovic  Concept link
    Ghate, Virendra P.  Concept link
    Zajaczkovski, Uriel  Concept link
    Vera, Alvaro  Concept link
    Maenner, Stacy  Concept link
    Hoyt, Brett  Concept link
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    Citable URI
    https://hdl.handle.net/1912/1565
    Location
    20°S, 85°W
    Chile
    DOI
    10.1575/1912/1565
    Keyword
     STRATUS; Upper ocean; Air-sea interaction; Ronald H. Brown (Ship) Cruise RB06-07 
    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.
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    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
     

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