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    Stratus 10 tenth setting of the Stratus Ocean Reference Station : cruise RB-10-01, January 2 - January 30, 2010 Charleston, South Carolina - Valparaiso, Chile

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    2010-05
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    Bigorre, Sebastien P.  Concept link
    Weller, Robert A.  Concept link
    Lord, Jeffrey  Concept link
    Galbraith, Nancy R.  Concept link
    Whelan, Sean P.  Concept link
    Zappa, Christopher J.  Concept link
    Otto, William  Concept link
    Ram, Jessica  Concept link
    Vasquez, Raul  Concept link
    Suhm, Diane  Concept link
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    Citable URI
    https://hdl.handle.net/1912/3708
    Location
    20°S, 85°W
    Chile
    DOI
    10.1575/1912/3708
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     Ronald H. Brown (Ship) Cruise RB10-01; 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 past cruises that have come between October and December. Due to necessary repairs on the electric motors of the ship’s propulsion system, this year the cruise was delayed until January. During the 2009/2010 cruise on the NOAA ship Ronald H. Brown to the ORS Stratus site, the primary activities were the recovery of the Stratus 9 WHOI surface mooring that had been deployed in October 2008, deployment of a new (Stratus 10) WHOI surface mooring at that site, in-situ calibration of the buoy meteorological sensors by comparison with instrumentation installed on the ship by staff of the NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL), and collection of underway and on station oceanographic data to continue to characterize the upper ocean in the stratus region. Both underway CTD (UCTD) profiles and Vertical Microstructure Profiles (VMP) were collected along the track and during surveys dedicated to investigating eddy variability in the region. Surface drifters were also launched along the track. The intent was also to visit a buoy for the Pacific tsunami warning system maintained by the Hydrographic and Oceanographic Service of the Chilean Navy (SHOA). This DART (Deep- Ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunami) buoy had been equipped with IMET sensors and subsurface oceanographic instruments, and a recovery and replacement of the IMET sensors was planned. However, the DART buoy broke free from its mooring on January 3rd and was recovered by the Chilean navy; the work done at that site during this cruise was the recovery of the bottom pressure unit.
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    Technical Report: Bigorre, Sebastien P., Weller, Robert A., Lord, Jeffrey, Galbraith, Nancy R., Whelan, Sean P., Zappa, Christopher J., Otto, William, Ram, Jessica, Vasquez, Raul, Suhm, Diane, "Stratus 10 tenth setting of the Stratus Ocean Reference Station : cruise RB-10-01, January 2 - January 30, 2010 Charleston, South Carolina - Valparaiso, Chile", 2010-05, DOI:10.1575/1912/3708, https://hdl.handle.net/1912/3708
     

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