A Multidisciplinary Amazon Shelf SEDiment Study (AmasSeds)
Subtitle: physical oceanography moored array component
By: by Carol A. Alessi ... [et al.].
Contributors: Alessi, Carol A.; Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
Series: WHOI -- 92-36.; WHOI (Series) -- 92-36.
Publisher: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Woods Hole, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 87
Subjects: Ocean-atmosphere interaction.
Description: A Multidisciplinary Amazon Shelf SEDiment Study (AmasSeds) is a cooperative research program by geological, chemical, physical, and biological oceanographers from Brazil and the United States to study sedimentary processes occurring over the continental shelf near the mouth of the Amazon River. The physical oceanography component of AmasSeds included a moored array deployed on the continental shelf approximately 300km northwest of the Amazon River mouth near 3.5N. The moored array consisted of a cross-shelf transect of three mooring sites located on the 18-m, 65-m, and 103-m isobaths. The moored array was deployed for approximately 4 months, from early February, 1990 to mid-June, 1990, obtaining time series measurements of current, temperature, conductivity, and wind. This report describes the physical oceanography moored array component and provides a statistical and graphical summary of the moored observations.
Notes: "Technical report."

September 1992.

NTIS No. AD-A261 538.

Includes bibliographical references.

Also issued online.