ADCP MOORING - DATA

R. Weisberg (University of South Florida, USA)

Announced availability: 1 January 1996

Data Access

The USF ADCP mooring data are available from the COARE Moored Data Archive at NOAA/PMEL's Tropical Atmosphere-Ocean Array (TAO) Project Office (http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/coare/coare-data.html).

The original data have also been archived at NOAA's National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) in Silver Spring, Maryland (http://www.nodc.noaa.gov), the repository for COARE oceanographic data, and at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado (http://dss.ucar.edu/pub/toga_coare/), the site of the TOGA COARE deep archive.

Background

The ADCP moorings were located at 0 45'N, 156E and 0, 157 30'E. The data are hourly horizontal velocity components at 10 m intervals between 30 and 250 m.

Both deployments of the COARE equatorial array yielded a 100% return of data. The data consist of hourly velocity profiles, at 10 m intervals, between depths of 280 m and 30 m (270 m and 30 m), from 11 February 1992 through 18 March 1993 (18 March 1993 through 4 April 1994). Ancillary data on temperature and salinity at the depths of the ADCP's transducer (nominally 290 m) are also available.

For more information, please contact:

Robert Weisberg
Department of Marine Science
University of South Florida
St. Petersburg, FL 33701
USA

email: weisberg@ocg6.marine.usf.edu
Phone: (813) 893-9568
FAX: (813) 893-9189

References

Weisberg, R.H, J.C. Donovan and R.D. Cole, 1993: The Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Response Experiment (COARE) equatorial array: a report on data collected using subsurface moored acoustic Doppler current profilers, February 1992 - March 1993, Department of Marine Science, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, FL 33701, 53 pp.

Weisberg, R.H., J.C. Donovan and R.D. Cole, 1994: The Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Response Experiment (COARE) equatorial array: A report on data collected using subsurface moored acoustic Doppler current profilers, March 1993 - April 1994, Department of Marine Science, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, FL 33701, 51 pp.

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