A Compilation of Moored Current Meter Data and Wind Recorder Data from the Severe Environment Surface Moorint (SESMOOR). Volume 43.

A Severe Environment Surface Mooring (SESMOOR) was designed to make long term meteorological and near surface oceanographic measurements in areas where harsh environmental conditions prevail. SESMOOR was deployed in the North Atlantic Ocean approximately 300 km southeast of Halifax, Nova Scotia for...

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Main Authors: Crescenti, Gennaro H., Tarbell, Susan A., Weller, Robert A.
Other Authors: WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION MA
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 1991
Subjects:
Meteorology
Physical and Dynamic Oceanography
*OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA
*METEOROLOGICAL DATA
TEMPERATURE
DEPLOYMENT
ENVIRONMENTS
DATA MANAGEMENT
OCEAN SURFACE
WIND
ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE
SURFACES
NOVA SCOTIA
QUALITY
INSTRUMENTATION
WIND VELOCITY
RECORDING SYSTEMS
CALIBRATION
SOLAR RADIATION
OCEANS
BAROMETRIC PRESSURE
LONG WAVELENGTHS
MASTS
SURFACE TEMPERATURE
NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN
FLOWMETERS
HUMIDITY
BUOYS
MOORING
TELEMETER SYSTEMS
MOORED BODIES
VELOCITY
DATA PROCESSING
*METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS
*FLOWMETERS
*MOORED BUOYS
WUNR083400
SESMOUR(SEVERE ENVIRONMENT SURFACE MOORING)
VAWR(VECTOR AVERAGING WIND RECORDER)
VMCM(VECTOR MEASURING CURRENT METERS)
North Atlantic
Online Access:http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA240601
http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA240601
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Summary:A Severe Environment Surface Mooring (SESMOOR) was designed to make long term meteorological and near surface oceanographic measurements in areas where harsh environmental conditions prevail. SESMOOR was deployed in the North Atlantic Ocean approximately 300 km southeast of Halifax, Nova Scotia for 141 days during the winter of 1988-89. Meteorological data were acquired from two Vector Averaging Wind Recorders (VAWR) located on top of a specially designed buoy mast and included air temperature, relative humidity, barometric pressure, wind velocity, solar and longwave radiation. Sea surface temperature was also acquired by the VAWRs. Current velocities and sea temperatures were obtained from two Vector Measuring Current Meters (VMCM) at 20 and 50 meters below sea surface. This report discusses instrument performance, data quality, pre- and post- deployment calibrations, data telemetry, data processing procedures. This report also presents the data in a variety of displays.

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