The Gulf Stream Meanders Experiment. AXBT/PRT Data Report, R/A Project Birdseye Flights, 9-18 February 1979.
Abstract
This report documents surface and subsurface ocean temperature data collected in the Gulf Stream frontal zone along the continental margin between Savannah, Georgia, and Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. The data were collected during eight flights made aboard the Project Birdseye research aircraft, a Lockheed P-3A operated by the U.S. Naval Oceanographic Office and U.S. Navy Squadron VXN-8, based at Patuxent River Naval Air Station, Maryland. These rapid, extensive and intensive surveys provided essentially synoptic, three-dimensional views of the mesoscale features (specifically meanders) within the Gulf Stream. The surveys were made in support of the observational component of the Gulf Stream Meanders Experiment (GSME), sponsored by the Office of Naval Research and the National Science Foundation. Temperature data collected during five other aircraft surveys in November, 1979 are documented in the data report by Brooks and Bane (1981). Hydrographic data from four cruises during 1979 are reported in two other data reports (Brooks et al 1980a; Bane et al 1980a). The central component of the observational study was an array of four instrument moorings which supported ten Aanderaa RCM-4 current meters. The array was deployed during two separate four-month periods during 1979. The data from the winter mooring period are documented in the report by Brooks et al. (1980b), and the summer data appear in the report by Bane and Brooks et al. (1981).
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Dec 01, 1980
- Accession Number
- ADA098182
Entities
People
- Cynthia M. Seay
- David A. Brooks
- John M. Bane
- Karen R. Lorenson
Organizations
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill