Northwest Tropical Atlantic Station (NTAS) : velocity data report for deployments 1 to 5
Citable URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1912/5444Location
14°50'N, 51°00'WNorthwest tropical Atlantic
DOI
10.1575/1912/5444Keyword
Oceanus (Ship : 1975-) Cruise OC365-5; Ronald H. Brown (Ship) Cruise RB02-02; Oceanographic buoys; OceanographyAbstract
This report presents velocity data from the Northwest Tropical Atlantic Station (NTAS)
deployments 1 through 5, from March 30, 2001, to February 28, 2006. The NTAS project
has maintained a series of moorings near 14°50'N, 51°00'W in the northwest tropical Atlantic
for air-sea flux measurement. The moorings include a surface buoy outfitted with Air-
Sea Interaction Meteorology (ASIMET) systems for determination of bulk air-sea fluxes and
oceanographic sensors along the upper 120 m of the mooring line. This report describes and
presents the velocity data recovered from current meters and Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers
(ADCPs) during the first five years of the NTAS project.
Collections
Related items
Showing items related by title, author, creator and subject.
-
The ecology of colonial radiolarians : their colony morphology, trophic interactions and associations, behavior, distribution, and the photosynthesis of their symbionts
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 1979-08)Colonial radiolarians (Spumellaria) are among the most common and abundant large zooplankton, but they have been little studied by modern biologists. Colonies were found on 98% of epipelagic diving stations in the period ... -
A determination of air-sea gas exchange and upper ocean biological production from five noble gases and tritiugenic helium-3
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 2007-09)The five noble gases (helium, neon, argon, krypton, and xenon) are biologically and chemically inert, making them ideal oceanographic tracers. Additionally, the noble gases have a wide range of solubilities and molecular ... -
Basalt petrogenesis beneath slow- and ultraslow-spreading Arctic mid-ocean ridges
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 2009-02)To explore the ability of melting mafic lithologies to produce alkaline ocean-island basalts (OIB), an experimental study was carried out measuring clinopyroxene (Cpx)- melt and garnet (Gt)-melt partition coefficients ...
