CBLAST-Low 2001 pilot study mooring deployment cruise and data report ; FV Nobska, June 4 to August 17, 2001

During the summer of 2001, several moorings and cruises were used as part of the CBLAST-Low (Coupled Boundary Layer Air-SeaTransfer under low wind conditions) pilot experiment in the North Atlantic, south of Martha’s Vineyard Island, MA, USA. Sixsubsurface tide gauges were deployed around the study site for a period of approximately 3 months during the summer of 2001.Further, two surface buoys equipped with meteorological instrumentation and subsurface arrays that measured temperature,conductivity and velocity were deployed during the months of July and August 2001. For a short intensive operating period duringJuly 2001, a newly manufactured three-dimensional mooring designed to sample three-dimensional properties of the upper ocean wasdeployed for a period of 6 days. During the Intensive Operating Period (IOP) along-shelf and across-shelfconductivity-temperature-depth (CTD) sections were completed as well as a drifting array designed to passively collect data from theupper water column released for approximately 24 hours. This report describes the instrumentation and type of moorings deployed bythe Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Upper Ocean Processes (WHOI UOP) group as well as data return and quality from theCBLAST-Low 2001 pilot study. This is summarized in graphical and tabular form in this report.

Funding provided by the Office of Naval Research under Contract No. N00014-01-1-0029and from the Secretary of the Navy / CNO Chair Grant No. N00014-99-1-0090.