• Login
    About WHOAS
    View Item 
    •   WHOAS Home
    • Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
    • WHOI Technical Reports
    • View Item
    •   WHOAS Home
    • Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
    • WHOI Technical Reports
    • View Item
    JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.

    Browse

    All of WHOASCommunities & CollectionsBy Issue DateAuthorsTitlesKeywordsThis CollectionBy Issue DateAuthorsTitlesKeywords

    My Account

    LoginRegister

    Statistics

    View Usage Statistics

    Stratus 12 : twelfth setting of the Stratus Ocean Reference Station

    Thumbnail
    View/Open
    WHOI-2012-08.pdf (7.574Mb)
    Date
    2012-10
    Author
    Bigorre, Sebastien P.  Concept link
    Weller, Robert A.  Concept link
    Lord, Jeffrey  Concept link
    Galbraith, Nancy R.  Concept link
    Whelan, Sean P.  Concept link
    Holte, James W.  Concept link
    Cifuentes, Ursula  Concept link
    Sanchez, Eric  Concept link
    Labbe-Ibanez, Pamela A.  Concept link
    Raboya, Magda Mindiola  Concept link
    Oltman, Susan  Concept link
    Denton, Elsie  Concept link
    Shambaugh, James  Concept link
    Metadata
    Show full item record
    Citable URI
    https://hdl.handle.net/1912/5544
    Location
    20°S, 85°W
    Chile
    DOI
    10.1575/1912/5544
    Keyword
     Melville (Ship) Cruise Stratus 12; 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. A NOAA vessel was not available, so this cruise was conducted on the Melville, operated by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. During the 2012 cruise on the Melville to the ORS Stratus site, the primary activities were the deployment of the Stratus 12 WHOI surface mooring, recovery of the previous (Stratus 11) WHOI surface mooring, in-situ calibration of the buoy meteorological sensors by comparison with instrumentation installed on the ship, and collection of underway and on station oceanographic data to continue to characterize the upper ocean in the stratus region. Underway CTD (UCTD) profiles were collected along the track. Surface drifters and subsurface floats were also launched along the track.
    Collections
    • Physical Oceanography (PO)
    • WHOI Technical Reports
    Suggested Citation
    Bigorre, S. P., Weller, R. A., Lord, J., Galbraith, N. R., Whelan, S. P., Holte, J. W., Cifuentes, U., Sanchez, E., Labbe-Ibanez, P. A., Raboya, M. M., Oltman, S., Denton, E., & Shambaugh, J. (2012). Stratus 12: twelfth setting of the Stratus Ocean Reference Station. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. https://doi.org/10.1575/1912/5544
     

    Related items

    Showing items related by title, author, creator and subject.

    • Thumbnail

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

      Whelan, Sean P.; Lord, Jeffrey; Galbraith, Nancy R.; Weller, Robert A.; Farrar, J. Thomas; Grant, David; Grados, Carmen; de Szoeke, Simon P.; Moffat, Carlos F.; Zappa, Christopher J.; Yang, Mingxi; Straneo, Fiamma; Fairall, Christopher W.; Zuidema, Paquita; Wolfe, Dan; Miller, Matthew; Covert, David (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 2009-04)
      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 ...
    • Thumbnail

      Stratus 14 : fourteenth setting of the Stratus Ocean Reference Station cruise on board RV Cabo de Hornos April 14 - 30, 2015 Valparaiso, Chile 

      Bigorre, Sebastien P.; Weller, Robert A.; Lord, Jeffrey; Galbraith, Nancy R.; Hasbrouck, Emerson; Pezoa, Sergio; Blomquist, Byron (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 2015-04)
      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 ...
    • Thumbnail

      Long-term evolution and coupling of the boundary layers in the Stratus Deck Regions of the eastern Pacific (STRATUS) 

      Lucas, Lisanne E.; Way, Bryan S.; Weller, Robert A.; Bouchard, Paul R.; Fischer, Albert S.; Moffat, Carlos F.; Schneider, Wolfgang; Fewings, Melanie R. (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 2001-06)
      A surface mooring was deployed in the eastern tropical Pacific west of northern Chile from the R/V Melville as part of the Eastern Pacific Investigation of Climate (EPIC). EPIC is a CLIVAR study with the goal of investigating ...
    All Items in WHOAS are protected by original copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated. WHOAS also supports the use of the Creative Commons licenses for original content.
    A service of the MBLWHOI Library | About WHOAS
    Contact Us | Send Feedback | Privacy Policy
    Core Trust Logo