CBLAST-low 2001 pilot study
Subtitle: mooring deployment cruise and data report : FV Nobska, June 4 to August 17, 2001
By: by Mark Pritchard ... [et al.].
Contributors: Pritchard, Mark.; Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.; Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Upper Ocean Processes Group.
Series: WHOI -- 2002-03.; Technical report / Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; UOP -- 2002-02.; WHOI (Series) -- 2002-03.; Technical report (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution); UOP report -- 2002-02.
Publisher: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Upper Ocean Processes Group
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Woods Hole, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 61
Subjects: Boundary layer (Meteorology) -- North Atlantic Ocean -- Observations.; Ocean-atmosphere interaction -- North Atlantic Ocean -- Observations.; Tide-gages -- Observations.; Oceanographic buoys -- Observations.; Deep-sea moorings -- Design and construction.
Genres: Observations.
Other titles: Mooring deployment cruise and data report.
Description: During the summer of 2001, several moorings and cruises were used as part of the CBLAST-Low (Coupled Boundary Layer Air-Sea Transfer under low wind conditions) pilot experiment in the North Atlantic, south of Marthas Vineyard Island, MA, USA. Six subsurface 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 during July 2001, a newly manufactured three-dimensional mooring designed to sample three-dimensional properties of the upper ocean was deployed for a period of 6 days. During the Intensive Operating Period (IOP) along-shelf and across-shelf conductivity-temperature-depth (CTD) sections were completed as well as a drifting array designed to passively collect data from the upper water column released for approximately 24 hours. This report describes the instrumentation and type of moorings deployed by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Upper Ocean Processes (WHOI UOP) group as well as data return and quality from the CBLAST-Low 2001 pilot study. This is summarized in graphical and tabular form in this report.
Notes: "May 2002."

"CBLAST-Low (Coupled boundary layer air-sea transfer under low wind conditions) pilot experiment in the North Atlantic"--P. iii.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 59).

Also issued online.

Funding provided by the Office of Naval Research Contract no. N00014-010100029 and from Secretary of the Navy/CNO Chair Grant no. N00014-99-1-0090.