1. CLIMODE surface mooring
Surface meteorology 1 minute sampling
(wind, barometric pressure, air and sea temp, incoming SW
and LW, precipitation, relative humidity)
Bulk formulae fluxes (heat, freshwater, momentum)
Turbulent fluxes - Jim Edson
Near-surface velocity and shear and 20 m cm
Temperature in upper 660 m
Temperature/conductivity at 1, 5, 341, 662 m
Deploy Nov 2005, recover/deploy Nov 2006, Recover Nov 2007

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4. 2 ASIMET with Argos telemetry
1 set standalone ASIMET
Edson flux package
1m T/C
5m T/C
10m Nortek cm
15 m Temp
20 m Nortek cm
40 m Temp
80 m Temp
120 m Temp
160 m Temp
200 m Temp
240 m Temp
280 m Temp
341 m T/C
360 m Temp
400 m Temp
440 m Temp
520 m Temp
560 m Temp
600 m Temp
662 m Temp
Fairing from surface to 983 meters

5. Deploy in the Gulf Streamx

6. RV Oceanus cruises Nov 9-27, 2005 Woods Hole - Woods Hole
Nov days Oceanus
Nov days Oceanus

8. Flux buoy Add 3rd ASIMET System for redundancy
Cold-room testing of ASIMETS and flux system
Heaters for rain gauges

10. Flux mooring Surface met accuracies
Incoming LW daily 4 W m-2
Incoming SW daily 6 W m-2
Relative humidity daily 1%
Air temperature daily 0.1°C
SST daily 0.1°C
Barometric pressure daily 0.2 mb
Wind speed, direction daily 1%, 5°
Precipitation daily 10%
Surface flux accuracies (monthly, annual)
Net LW 4 W m-2
Net SW 5 W m-2
Sensible 1.5 W m-2
Latent 5 W m-2
Total net heat 8 W m-2
Momentum N m-2

11. Flux mooring Available in near-real time
Hourly averages from two ASIMET systems
Surface meteorology
SST (1 m)
Salinity (1 m)