The Gulf Stream Meanders Experiment. AXBT/PRT Data Report, R/A Project Seascan Flights, 21-29 November 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 five flights made aboard the Project Seascan 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 eight other aircraft surveys in February 1979 are documented in the data report by Bane et al. (1980b). Hydrographic data from four cruises during 1979 are reported in two other data reports (Brooks et al., 1980a; Bane et al., 1980). 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 Brooks et al. (1981).
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Apr 01, 1981
- Accession Number
- ADA098183
Entities
People
- David A. Brooks
- John M. Bane
Organizations
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill