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Moored Temperature Observations
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C. A. Paulson, and J. Simpkins
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Moored temperature observations were obtained at an array of buoys in
the North Atlantic (59°00.2 1 -59°10.7'N, 12°27.4'-12°33.6'W) during the
Joint Air-Sea Interaction Experiment (JASIN) of 1978.
Observations were
taken at 10-minute intervals by use of thermistors at 21 depths ranging
from 4.5 m to 81.5 m. Plots of temperature as a function of time are
presented for three moorings for the period July 28 through September 6,
1978.
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MOORED TEMPERATURE
OBSERVATIONS IN JASIN
by
L. M. deWitt, J. Bottero, W. V. Burt
C. A. Paulson and J. Simpkins
School of Oceanography
Oregon State University
Corvallis, Oregon 97331
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Data Report 83
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INTRODUCTION 1
INSTRUMENTATION 1
OBSERVATIONS 2
REFERENCES APPENDICES
A. Location of Buoys B.
Periods of Operation of Sensors
6
C.
Temperature Observations at B1 10
D.
Temperature Observations at B2 48
E.
Temperature Observations at B4 89
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
We gratefully acknowledge the cooperation of the officers,
crew and scientists aboard the R/V ATLANTIS II, David F. Casiles,
commanding and Melbourne G. Briscoe, Chief Scientist. Special
thanks go to personnel from the Woods Hole Buoy Group for their
aid in deployment and retrieval of the moorings. This research
was supported by the Office of Naval Research through contracts
N00014-76-C-0067 and N00014-79-C-0004 under project NR 083-12.
INTRODUCTION
This report presents moored temperature observations obtained at three
buoys during the Joint Air-Sea Interaction Experiment (JASIN) of July through
September 1978. Details of the JASIN project can be found in reports of the
Royal Society (1977, 1978) and in a paper by Pollard (1978). In the present
study, temperature was recorded at 10-minute intervals at depths ranging from
4.5 m to 81.5 m. Sea surface temperature and atmospheric conditions were also
recorded at each buoy but will not be presented in this report. For a discussion and analysis of these observations, see Ishida (1980). Temperature
observations using a towed thermistor chain have been obtained by Baumann et al.
(1980) in the same general area as the moorings.
INSTRUMENTATION
The location of the four moorings B1 through B4 is given in Appendix A.
The moorings each included two Aanderaa recorders and thermistor chains. At
moorings B2, B3 and B4, eleven thermistors on shallow chains measured water
temperature at vertical separations of 3 m from a depth of 5.5 m to 35.5 m.
A loop in the cable at mooring Bl caused the shallow chain at this mooring to
be 1 m more shallow than at the other three, so observations there were at
vertical separations of 3 m from 4.5 to 34.5 m. The deep thermistor chain at
all four moorings measured water temperature at 10 locations separated by
intervals of 5 m from a depth of 36.5 to 81.5 m. The eleventh channel on the
deeper chains was used to record pressure, but because of an apparent sensor
malfunction, pressure observations have not been included in this report.
2
OBSERVATIONS
The starting time and length of operation of each thermistor is given
for buoys Bl, B2, and 84 in Appendix B. Observations from buoy B3 were
extremely noisy and have been excluded from this report. Temperature observations for the remaining three moorings as a function of time are given in
Appendix C.
In general, the temperature plot from a given sensor was terminated at
the point in time where it appeared to fail. In some cases, however, the
exact location of the cutoff point was difficult to determine because the
sensor apparently began giving erroneous readings several hours or even days
before it totally failed. One obvious example of this occurred at mooring
Bl. The 4.5 m thermistor seemed well correlated with the lower sensors during
the first six hours of its operation, but at about 0100 on August 2 higher
frequency oscillations ceased. While the observations continued to follow
the general trend of the lower sensors, inversions appeared that were probably
not real. Even so, these observations give an approximate indication of surface
temperature at Bl and have not been excluded from the plots. Other examples
of this occurrence are of much shorter duration but in most cases are just as
obvious.
One other problem with the data is that except for a few instances, the
data loggers would not record lower than a certain value which was approximately
8.9°C. This malfunction appeared most obviously in frequent sharp cutoffs of the
lower two sensors in the last three weeks of data from mooring B4. (For example,
see August 17). The problem also occurred occasionally at B2 when temperatures
fell low enough. Temperatures at 81 never fell below 9.09°C and no such cutoffs appeared.
REFERENCES
Baumann, R. J., C. A. Paulson and J. Wagner, 1980: Towed thermistor chain
observations in JASIN. Report, Reference 80-14, School of Oceanography,
Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon 97331, 202 pp.
Ishida, H., 1980: Analysis of Meteorological Observations from an Array of
Buoys during JASIN. Report, Reference 80-2, School of Oceanography,
Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon 97331, 63 pp.
Pollard, R. T., 1978: The Joint Air-Sea Interaction Experiment-JASIN 1978.
Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 59, 1310-1318.
Royal Society, 1977: Air-Sea Interaction Project, Scientific Plans for 1977
and 1978. London, 208 pp.
Royal Society, 1978: Air-Sea Interaction Project, Operational Plans for 1978,
London, 225 pp.
APPENDICES
APPENDIX A
Location of Buoys
Location of Buoys
B1
B2
B3
B4
Lat (N)
Lon (W)
59°00.4'
59°00.2'
59°01.6'
59°10.7'
12°33.6'
12°27.5'
12°27.4'
12°31.0'
APPENDIX B
Depth versus the duration of operation of each sensor at
buoys Bl, B2 and B4 are given on the following three pages.
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APPENDIX C
Temperature Observations at Bl
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2 HUG 78
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3 PUG 78
2000
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1600
4 RUG 78
2000
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5 AUG 78
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6 AUG 78
2000
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7 RUG 78
2000
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8 RUG 78
2000
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MOORING B1 TEMP VS TIME 1600
9 RUG 78'
2000
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MOORING B1 TEMP VS TIME 10 RUG 78
2000
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MOORING B1 TEMP VS TIME 11 AUG 78
0800
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MOORING B1 TEMP VS TIME 14 RUG 78
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MOORING B1 TEMP VS TIME 15 RUG 78
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2000
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2000
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2000
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MOORING 81 TEMP VS TIME 23 RUG 78
2000
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MOORING B1 TEMP VS TIME 24 AUG 78
2000
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2000
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2000
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3 SEP 78
2000
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1600
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APPENDIX D
Temperature Observations at B2
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2000
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1600
7 RUG 78
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0800
1200
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9 AUG 78
2000
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0800
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1600
MOORING B2 TEMP VS TIME 10 RUG 78
2000
0400
0800
1200
1600
MOORING B2 TEMP VS TIME 11 AUG 78
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1200
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MOORING B2 TEMP VS TIME 12 AUG 78
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2000
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MOORING B2 TEMP VS TIME 29 RUG 78
2000
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MOORING B2 TEMP VS TIME 30 RUG 78
2000
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MOORING B2 TEMP VS TIME 31 HUG 78
2000
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2000
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2000
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2000
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2000
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APPENDIX E
Temperature Observations at B4
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2000
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MOORING B4 TEMP VS TIME 29 JUL 78
2000
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MOORING B4 TEMP VS TIME 30 JUL 78
2000
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MOORING B4 TEMP VS TIME 31 JUL 78
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1 RUG 78
2000
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1600
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1600
8 RUG 78
2000
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1600
9 RUG 78
2000
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0400
0800
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1 600
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2000
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0400
0800
1200
1600
MOORING B4 TEMP VS TIME 11 HUG 78
2000
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2000
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MOORING B4 TEMP VS TIME 20 RUG 78
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MOORING 84 TEMP VS TIME 26 RUG 78
2000
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2000
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2000
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2000
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2000
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2 SEP 78
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3 SEP 78