Coastal Mixing and Optics Experiment; Mooring Deployment Cruise Report R/V Oceanus Cruise Number 284, 31 July-11 August 1996

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Abstract:

An array of moorings at four sites at a mid-shelf location in the mid-atlantic Bight was deployed for a period of 10 months beginning in August 1996 as part of the Coastal Mixing and Optics Experiment CMO, funded by the Office of Naval Research ONR. The purpose of this array is to gather information to help identify and understand the vertical mixing processes influencing the evolution of the stratification over the shelf. The observations from this moored array will be used to investigate changes in the stratification in response to atmospheric forcing, surface gravity wave variability, surface and bottom boundary layer mixing, current shear, internal waves, and advection. This report describes the primary mooring deployments carried out by the Upper Ocean Processes UOP Group on the RV Oceanus, sailing out of Woods Hole during July, August, and September of 1996.

Author(s):
Galbraith, Nancy ; Ostrom, William ; Way, Bryan ; Lentz, Steve ; Anderson, Steve
Author Organization(s):
WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION MA
Descriptive Note:
Technical rept.
Pagination:
0089

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DOCUMENT & CONTEXTUAL SUMMARY

Distribution:
Approved For Public Release

RECORD

Collection: TR
Identifying Numbers
Report Number(s):
WHOI-97-13, UOP-TR-97-02
Contract/Grant Number(s):
N00014-95-1-0339
Monitor Series:
ONR
 Subject Terms
Joint Capability Areas:
JCA_4.1_Deployment and Distribution; JCA_5_Command and Control; JCA_6_Net Centric; JCA_5.3_Planning; JCA_1.2_Force Preparation; JCA_1_Force Support; JCA_6.1.1_Wired Transmission; JCA_6.1.3_Switching and Routing; JCA_1.2.3_Educating; JCA_6.1_Information Transport; JCA_1.2.7_Experimentation; JCA_4_Logistics; JCA_6.4.1_Secure Information Exchange; JCA_6.3.3_Spectrum Management; JCA_6.4_Information Assurance; JCA_JCA_4.1.2_Sustain the Force; JCA_6.3_Net Management
Modernization Areas:
Microelectronics; Space
Communities of Interest:
Sensors
Descriptor(s):
*METEOROLOGICAL DATA, *OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA, *MOORING BUOYS, SURFACE WAVES, MIXED LAYER(MARINE), STRATIFICATION, NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN, ADVECTION, INTERNAL WAVES
Field(s)/Group(s):
Meteorology, Physical and Dynamic Oceanography
Keyword(s):
UOP(UPPER OCEAN PROCESSES), CMO(COASTAL MIXING AND OPTICS)
Report Date:
1997 Aug 01
Creation Date:
1997 Dec 03