Accession Number:

ADA048581

Title:

Mixed Layer Observations during the NORPAX POLE Experiment.

Descriptive Note:

Data rept.,

Corporate Author:

OREGON STATE UNIV CORVALLIS SCHOOL OF OCEANOGRAPHY

Personal Author(s):

• Simpson,James J.
• Paulson,Clayton A.

Report Date:

1977-08-01

Pagination or Media Count:

172.0

Abstract:

This report contains observations made from RP FLIP as part of the first process-oriented NORPAX North Pacific Experiment experiment. The experiment was named POLE to indicate that the horizontal extent of sampling was small compared to the largest scale investigated in NORPAX. The part of the experiment reported here was conducted during the period 28 Jan through 14 Feb 74. During this time, FLIP occupied a station approximately 800 miles north of the Hawaiian Island Chain 35 deg N. lat, 155 W. long under free drift conditions. Direct measurements of the incident solar, reflected solar, net all-wave and net long-wave fluxes were made from RP FLIP 2-14 Feb 74. The sea surface temperature was also observed with a radiation thermometer. Standard meteorological observations, from which the latent and sensible heat fluxes from the sea surface to the atmosphere were derived, also were made during this period. Vertical profiles of temperature and salinity were taken from RP FLIP 30 Jan-14 Feb 74. Profiling was concentrated in the mixed layer and thermocline. The maximum depth reached was 325 meters. On average, 8 profiles were measured per day.

Descriptors:

• *OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA
• *SOLAR RADIATION
• *SEA WATER
• *THERMOCLINES
• DENSITY
• TEMPERATURE
• OCEAN SURFACE
• METEOROLOGICAL DATA
• DRIFT
• PROFILES
• LATENT HEAT
• VERTICAL ORIENTATION
• MIXING
• SALINITY
• LONG WAVELENGTHS
• HYDROGRAPHY
• HEAT FLUX
• SURFACE TEMPERATURE
• DIURNAL VARIATIONS
• NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN
• OPEN WATER
• RESEARCH SHIPS
• SUBTROPICAL REGIONS
• OCEANOGRAPHIC SHIPS

Subject Categories:

• Meteorology
• Physical and Dynamic Oceanography

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE