Coastal Mixing and Optics Experiment Moored Array Data Report

To investigate vertical mixing processes influencing the evolution of the stratification over continental shelves, a moored array was deployed on the New England shelf from August 1996 to June 1997 as part of the Office of Naval Research's Coastal Mixing and Optics program. The array consisted...

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Main Authors: Galbraith, Nancy, Plueddemann, Albert, Lentz, Steven, Anderson, Steven, Baumgartner, Mark
Other Authors: WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION MA
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 1999
Subjects:
Meteorology
Physical and Dynamic Oceanography
*METEOROLOGICAL DATA
*OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA
ARRAYS
CONTINENTAL SHELVES
VERTICAL ORIENTATION
MIXING
NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN
MOORING
VERTICAL MIXING
*MOORED ARRAYS
North Atlantic
Online Access:http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA376153
http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA376153
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Summary:To investigate vertical mixing processes influencing the evolution of the stratification over continental shelves, a moored array was deployed on the New England shelf from August 1996 to June 1997 as part of the Office of Naval Research's Coastal Mixing and Optics program. The array consisted of four mid-shelf sites instrumented to measure oceanic (currents, temperature, salinity, pressure, and surface gravity wave spectra) and meteorological (winds, surface heat flux, precipitation) variables. This report presents a description of the moored array, a summary of the data processing, and statistics and time-series plots summarizing the data. A report on the mooring recovery cruise and a summary of shipboard CTD surveys taken during the mooring deployment are also included.

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