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    Stratus 9/VOCALS ninth setting of the Stratus Ocean Reference Station & VOCALS Regional Experiment

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    2009-04
    Author
    Whelan, Sean P.  Concept link
    Lord, Jeffrey  Concept link
    Galbraith, Nancy R.  Concept link
    Weller, Robert A.  Concept link
    Farrar, J. Thomas  Concept link
    Grant, David  Concept link
    Grados, Carmen  Concept link
    de Szoeke, Simon P.  Concept link
    Moffat, Carlos F.  Concept link
    Zappa, Christopher J.  Concept link
    Yang, Mingxi  Concept link
    Straneo, Fiamma  Concept link
    Fairall, Christopher W.  Concept link
    Zuidema, Paquita  Concept link
    Wolfe, Dan  Concept link
    Miller, Matthew  Concept link
    Covert, David  Concept link
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    Citable URI
    https://hdl.handle.net/1912/2841
    Location
    20°S, 85°W
    Chile
    DOI
    10.1575/1912/2841
    Keyword
     Ronald H. Brown (Ship) Cruise RB08-06; Marine meteorology; Oceanography 
    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; 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 2008 cruise on the NOAA ship Ronald H. Brown to the ORS Stratus site, the primary activities were recovery of the Stratus 8 WHOI surface mooring that had been deployed in October 2007, deployment of a new (Stratus 9) WHOI surface mooring at that site; in-situ calibration of the buoy meteorological sensors by comparison with instrumentation put on board by staff of the NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL); 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 DART (Deep-Ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunami) carries IMET sensors and subsurface oceanographic instruments. A DART II buoy was deployed north of the STRATUS buoy, by personnel from the National Data Buoy Center (NDBC) Argo floats and drifters were 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. Additionally, the Stratus 8 buoy received a partial CO2 detector from the Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL). 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 2008 cruise included cloud radar, radiosonde balloons, and sensors for mean and turbulent surface meteorology. Finally, the cruise hosted a teacher participating in NOAA’s Teacher at Sea Program.
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    Whelan, S. P., Lord, J., Galbraith, N., Weller, R., Farrar, J. T., Grant, D., Grados, C., de Szoeke, S. P., Moffat, C., Zappa, C., Yang, M., Straneo, F., Fairall, C., Zuidema, P., Wolfe, D., Miller, M., & Covert, D. (2009). Stratus 9/VOCALS ninth setting of the Stratus Ocean Reference Station and VOCALS Regional Experiment. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. https://doi.org/10.1575/1912/2841
     

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