The Subduction experiment
Subtitle: mooring field program and data summary ; Sub1 June 1991-February 1992 ; Sub2 February 1992-October 1992 ; Sub 3 October 1992-June 1993
By: by Nancy J. Brink ... [et al.]
Contributors: Brink, Nancy J.; Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.; Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Upper Ocean Processes Group.
Series: WHOI -- 95-08.; UOP technical report -- 95-2.; UOP report -- 95-2.; WHOI (Series) -- 95-08.
Publisher: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Upper Ocean Processes Group
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Woods Hole, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 113
Subjects: Deep-sea moorings.; Oceanographic instruments.; Oceanography -- Research.; Marine meteorology -- Observations.; Ocean-atmosphere interaction.
Description: An array of five surface moorings carrying meteorological and oceanographic instrumentation was deployed for a period of two years beginning in June 1991 as part of an Office of Naval Research (ONR) funded Subduction experiment. Three eight month deployments were carried out. The five mooring locations were 18N 34W, 18N 22W, 25.5N 29W, 33N 22W and 33N 34W. Two Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and three Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) moorings collected oceanographic and meteorological data, using a 3-meter discus or 2-meter toroid buoy and multiple Vector Measuring Current Meters (VMCMs), an Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) and Brancker temperature recorders (tpods). The surface buoys carried a Vector Averaging Wind Recorder (VAWR) and, on four of the five moorings, an Improved Meteorological Recorder (IMET) which measured wind speed and wind direction, sea surface temperature, air temperature, short wave radiation, barometric pressure and relative humidity. The IMET also measured precipitation. The VMCMs, ADCP and tpods, placed at depths 1 m to 3500 m, measured oceanic velocities and temperatures. This report presents meteorological and oceanographic data from the WHOI Upper Ocean Processes Group (UOP) and the SIO Instrument and Development Group (lDG) instruments and contains summaries of the instruments used, their depths, mooring positions, mooring deployment and recovery times, and data return. Appendices contain information on supplementary Subduction data sets.
Notes: "Technical report."

"June 1995."

"Funding was provided by the Office of Naval Research under contract N00014-90-J-1490."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 102-104)

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