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U.S. GLOBEC Long-Term Moored Array Data
J. Irish1, M. Caruso1, R. Limeburner1,
R. Beardsley1, K. Brink1
1Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA 02543
As part of the U.S. GLOBEC Northwest Atlantic/Georges Bank program,
a long-term moored array was deployed and maintained on Georges Bank
as part of the broad-scale survey component to help measure the
long-term variability of both physical and biological
characteristics on the Bank. The array consisted of a primary
mooring site on the southern flank (SF) which was maintained for the
full 5-year duration of the field program, plus secondary moorings,
with fewer sensors and of shorter duration, in the well-mixed water
on the crest (CR) and in the cod/haddock spawning region on the
Northeast Peak (NEP). Temperature and conductivity (salinity) were
measured at 5-m intervals, ADCP horizontal velocity profiles were
obtained with 1-m vertical resolution, and bio-optical packages
which measured fluoroescence, optical transmission and
photosynthetically active radiation were deployed at 10-m and 40-m
depths on selected moorings. The moored array data have now been
reprocessed with final calibration checks and put i nto a standard
file structure organized by mooring site, measurement depth and
start date. The time series data are stored in MatLab mat-files
with ASCII metadata files on the WHOI ftp site. This database also
includes data from the 1995 Stratification Study moored array and
the BIO long-term moored array component for completeness. This
poster describes the composition and organization of the final
moored array data set and provides directions on how to access this
data via ftp using the Internet.
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