The Marine light - mixed layer experiment cruise and data report, R/V Endeavor : cruise EN-224, mooring deployment, 27 April-1 May 1991, cruise EN-227, mooring recovery, 5-23 September 1991
1993
Plueddemann, Albert J. | Weller, Robert A. | Dickey, Thomas D. | Marra, John | Tupper, George H. | Way, Bryan S. | Ostrom, William M. | Bouchard, Paul R. | Oien, Andrea L. | Galbraith, Nancy R.
The Marine Light - Mixed Layer experiment took place in the sub-Arctic North Atlantic ocean, approximately 275 milessouth of Reykjavik, Iceland. The field program included a central surface mooring to document the temporal evolution of physical,biological and optical properties. The surface mooring was deployed at approximately 59°N, 21°W on 29 April 1991 and recoveredon 6 September 1991. The Upper Ocean Processes Group of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution was responsible for design,preparation, deployment, and recovery of the mooring. The Group's contrbution to the field measurements included four differenttypes of sensors: a meteorological observation package on the surface buoy, a string of 15 temperature sensors along the mooringline, an acoustic Doppler current profiler, and four instruments for measuring mooring tension and accelerations. The observationsobtained from the mooring are sufficient to describe the air-sea fluxes and the local physical response to surface forcing. Theobjective in the analysis phase will be to determine the factors controlling this physical response and to work towards an understandingof the links among physical, biological, and optical processes. This report describes the deployment and recovery of themooring, the meteorological data, and the subsurface temperature and current data.
Show more [+] Less [-]Funding was provided by the Office of Naval Research under Contract N00014-89-J-1683.
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