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Autonomous Ocean Flux Buoy 16
Listed in NASA Earthdata CMR
Time-series data from the Naval Postgraduate School Autonomous Ocean Flux Buoy (AOFB) #16.
Description
This buoy was deployed in the northern limb of the Beaufort Gyre, on 8 August 2008. The time series ended on 8 January 2009.
The buoy measured velocity, temperature, salinity, and the vertical turbulent fluxes of heat, salt, and momentum in the ocean surface mixed layer with a custom-built sensor package about 5m below the ice-ocean interface. The buoy also measured vertical profiles of ocean currents with an RD instruments 600 kHz Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler. Additional information about the NPS AOFB program, including real-time data from active buoys, is available at: oc.nps.edu/~stanton/fluxbuoy The flux package data set is provided in Matlab and NetCDF file formats.
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Each file contains the following variables: time - Time in YYYDDD format from 1900 (days) depth - Depth from surface of ice cover, positive up (m) latitude - Latitude (degrees) longitude - Longitude (degrees) u - Velocity, x-component (m/s) v - Velocity, y-component (m/s) T - Temperature (deg C) S - Salinity (psu) uw - Kinematic Vertical Momentum Flux, x-component (m/s)^2 vw - Kinematic Vertical Momentum Flux, y-component (m/s)^2 wT - Kinematic Vertical Heat Flux (K m/s) wS - Vertical Salt Flux (psu m/s) q2 - Fluctuation Kinetic Energy (m/s)^2 Velocities are reported in the instrument coordinate system of the flux package acoustic travel-time current meter.
The fluctuation kinetic energy variable is useful for identifying time periods when the buoy is in open water and flux estimates are contaminated by surface-wave motions.
Links
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- aoncadis.org /dataset/id/2a19b4d9-68f8-11df-a67a-00c0f03d5b7c.html ↗
Data Center top-level access page for this resource
download · from NASA CMR
Catalogue records · 2
- CMR record cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C1214600401-SCIOPS.html ↗
catalogue entry · from NASA CMR
- CMR UMM-JSON cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C1214600401-SCIOPS.umm_json ↗
metadata API · from NASA CMR
Topics
- Stated by source
- Not provided · Ocean Mixed Layer
Provenance · 1 source records, 8 field assertions
| Source | Key | Last seen | Raw |
|---|---|---|---|
| NASA Earthdata CMR | C1214600401-SCIOPS | 13 d ago | JSON v1 |
| Field | Assertion | Extractor | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| access_level | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/oceans/ocean-circulation/ocean-mixed-layer | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[platform].gcmd_platform:not-provided | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| description | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/Abstract |
| spatial | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/SpatialExtent |
| temporal | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/TemporalExtents |
| title | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/EntryTitle |
| version_label | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 |