WHOI Hawaii Ocean Timeseries Station (WHOTS) : WHOTS-3 mooring turnaround cruise report

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2007-05Author
Whelan, Sean P.
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Weller, Robert A.
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Lukas, Roger
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Bradley, Frank
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Lord, Jeffrey
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Smith, Jason C.
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Bahr, Frank B.
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Lethaby, Paul
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Snyder, Jefrey
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https://hdl.handle.net/1912/1825Location
22.75°N, 158°WHawaii
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10.1575/1912/1825Keyword
Ocean-atmosphere interaction; Oceanographic buoys; Marine meteorology; Roger Revelle (Ship) Cruise AMAT-07Abstract
The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) Hawaii Ocean Timeseries (HOT) Site (WHOTS), 100 km north of Oahu, Hawaii,
is intended to provide long-term, high-quality air-sea fluxes as a coordinated part of the HOT program and contribute to the goals of
observing heat, fresh water, and chemical fluxes at a site representative of the oligotrophic North Pacific Ocean. The approach is to
maintain a surface mooring outfitted for meteorological and oceanographic measurements at a site near 22.75N 158W by successive
mooring turnarounds. These observations will be used to investigate air-sea interaction processes related to climate variability.
The first WHOTS mooring (WHOTS-1) was deployed in August 2004. WHOTS-1 was recovered and WHOTS-2 deployed in July 2005.
This report documents recovery of the WHOTS-2 mooring and deployment of the third mooring (WHOTS-3) at the same site. Both
moorings used Surlyn foam buoys as the surface element and were outfitted with two Air-Sea Interaction Meteorology (ASIMET)
systems. Each system measures, records, and transmits via Argos satellite, the surface meteorological variables necessary to compute
air-sea fluxes of heat, moisture, and momentum. WHOTS-2 was equipped with one Iridium data transmitter, and WHOTS-3 had two
Iridium data transmitters. In cooperation with R. Lukas of the University of Hawaii, the upper 155 m of the morrings were outfitted with
oceanographic sensors for the measurement of temperature, conductivity, and velocity.
The WHOTS mooring turnaround was done on the Scripps Institution of Oceanography ship Revelle, Cruise AMAT-07, by the Upper
Ocean Processes Group of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and Roger Lukas’group at the University of Hawaii. The cruise took
place between 22 and 29 June 2006. Operations on site were initiated with an intercomparison of shipboard meteorological observations
with the WHOTS-2 buoy. Dr. Frank Bradley, CSIRO, Australia, assisted with these comparisons. This was followed by recovery of the
WHOTS-2 mooring on 24 June. A number of recovered instruments were calibrated by attaching them to the rosette frame of the CTD.
Shallow CTD profiles were taken every two hours for 12 hours on the 25th of June. A fish trap was deployed on June 25th by John Yeh, a
University of Hawaii graduate student. The WHOTS-3 mooring was deployed on 26 June at approximately 22°46'N, 157°54'W in 4703 m
of water. A ship-buoy intercomparison period and series of shallow CTDs followed along with a second deployment of the fishtrap.
A NOAA Teacher-At-Sea, Diana Griffiths, and a NOAA Hollings Scholar, Terry Smith, participated in the cruise. This report describes
the mooring operations, some of the pre-cruise buoy preparations and CTD casts taken during the cruise, the fish trap deployments, and
the experiences of the Teacher-at-Sea and Hollings Scholar.
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Whelan, S. P., Weller, R. A., Lukas, R., Bradley, F., Lord, J., Smith, J., Bahr, F., Lethaby, P., & Snyder, J. (2007). WHOI Hawaii Ocean Timeseries Station (WHOTS): WHOTS-3 mooring turnaround cruise report. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. https://doi.org/10.1575/1912/1825Related items
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