Stratus 12 Twelfth Setting of the Stratus Ocean Reference Station
Abstract
The Ocean Reference Station at 20 deg S, 85 deg W under the stratus clouds west of northern Chile is being maintained to provide ongoing climate-quality records of surface meteorology, air-sea fluxes of heat, freshwater, and momentum, and of upper ocean temperature, salinity, and velocity variability. The Stratus Ocean Reference Station (ORS Stratus) is supported by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Climate Observation Program. It is recovered and redeployed annually. A NOAA vessel was not available, so this cruise was conducted on the Melville, operated by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. During the 2012 cruise on the Melville to the ORS Stratus site, the primary activities were the deployment of the Stratus 12 WHOI surface mooring, recovery of the previous (Stratus 11) WHOI surface mooring, in-situ calibration of the buoy meteorological sensors by comparison with instrumentation installed on the ship, and collection of underway and on station oceanographic data to continue to characterize the upper ocean in the stratus region. Underway CTD (UCTD) profiles were collected along the track. Surface drifters and subsurface floats were also launched along the track.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2012
- Accession Number
- ADA573036
Entities
People
- Eric Sanchez
- James Holte
- Jeff Lord
- Magda M. Raboya
- Nancy Galbraith
- Pamela A. Labbe-ibanez
- Robert A. Weller
- Sean Whelan
- Sebastien Bigorre
- Ursula Cifuentes
Organizations
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution