ATOMIC SWIFT drifters: Near-surface meteorology, air-sea fluxes, surface ocean waves, and near-surface ocean properties (turbulent dissipation rate, currents, temperature, salinity) estimated from in-situ and remote sensing instruments aboard six SWIFT drifters (Surface Wave Instrument Float with Tracking) launched and recovered for two different deployments from NOAA Ship Ronald H. Brown in the North Atlantic Ocean, near Barbados: Atlantic Tradewind Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Interaction Campaign ...

• Main Authors: Thomson, Jim, Thompson, Elizabeth, Iyer, Suneil, Drushka, Kyla, De Klerk, Alex
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information 2021
• Subjects: Orion; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.25921/s5d7-tc07; https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/0225279

The Atlantic Tradewind Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Interaction Campaign (ATOMIC) was a field campaign held January-February 2020 in the tropical North Atlantic east of Barbados. The campaign, the U.S. complement to the European field campaign called EUREC4A, was aimed at better understanding cloud an...