Current velocity and hydrographic observations in the Southwestern North Atlantic Ocean: Subtropical Atlantic Climate Studies (STACS), 1989 (NODC Accession 9100033)

• Format: Dataset
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• Published: NOAA NCEI Environmental Data Archive 2016
• Subjects: DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NODC > National Oceanographic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce; DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI > National Centers for Environmental Information, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce; 9100033; BAROMETRIC PRESSURE; CURRENT METER - EAST-WEST COMPONENT (U); CURRENT METER - NORTH-SOUTH COMPONENT (V); DYNAMIC DEPTH ANOMALY; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; SALINITY; SEA STATE; SIGMA-T; SOUND VELOCITY; water depth; WATER TEMPERATURE; bathythermograph - XBT; CTD; meteorological sensors; physical; profile; ALBATROSS IV; MALCOLM BALDRIGE; US DOC; NOAA; OAR; Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory; SUBTROPICAL ATLANTIC CLIMATE STUDY (STACS); North American Coastline-South; oceanography; North Atlantic
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The primary objective of the STACS program are to increase our understanding of the dynamics of the North Atlantic circulation and the role of the ocean circulation in global climate, to develop the capability to monitor the climatically important processes, and to provide data needed in the development of the coupled ocean-atmosphere general circulation models to be used for global climate prediction. In particular, the mechanisms by which the ocean transports heat to balance the net radiation deficit at northerly latitudes are being studied. Data from STACS cruises conducted on the NOAA Ships ALBATROSS 4 and MALCOLM BALDRIDGE during two cruises - February and August 1989 - are contained in this report. Table 1 shows the type of data collected on each cruise. Techniques used in this cruises are Pegasus, CTD, and XBT data.