Publication Date:
2022-05-26
Description:
The Tropical Ocean - Global Atmosphere Coupled Ocean - Atmosphere Response Experiment (TOGA COARE) was
conceived in order to improve understanding of the principal processes responsible for coupling of the ocean and atmosphere in the
western Pacific warm pool region. Field work for TOGA COARE was concentrated in an Intensive Flux Array (IFA) and included a
variety of atmospheric and oceanic platforms. The Upper Ocean Processes Group (UOPG) was involved in TOGA COARE through
the preparation, deployment, and recovery of a heavily instrumented surface mooring for the observation of air-sea fluxes and
oceanic temperature, salinity, and currents in the upper 300 m. The mooring was deployed at 1°,45.27'S, 155°,59.73'E on 21
October 1992 in 1744 m of water. An instrument check-out cruise was undertaken in December of 1992 in order to evaluate the
meteorological systems on the buoy. The mooring was recovered on 4 March 1993. This report describes mooring deployment
operations, the instrument check-out cruise, and the mooring recovery. UOPG personnel also assisted with the deployment and
recovery of five other moorings as a part of the COARE IFA and these operations are discussed.
Description:
Funding provided by the National Science Foundation under grants OCE-9110554 and OCE-9110559.
Keywords:
Air-sea interaction
;
Moored data
;
Western Pacific warm pool
;
Wecoma (Ship) Cruise WE92-10A
;
Wecoma (Ship) Cruise WE93-02A
;
le Noroit (Ship) Cruise
Repository Name:
Woods Hole Open Access Server
Type:
Technical Report
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Format:
application/pdf
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