With the cooperation of the Government of Barbados and with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration as lead agency, the Barbados Oceanographic and Meteorological Experiment (BOMEX) was conducted over the tropical Atlantic East of Barbados in the summer of 1969. The field operations for this multiagency national study of the ocean-atmosphere system were divided into four observation periods: May 3 to 15, May 24 to June 10, June 19 to July 2, and July 11 to july 28. The first three were devoted to the Sea Air Interaction Program--the BOMEX 'Core Experiment'--within a 500-km by 500-km square ship array. During the fourth period, the array was extended southward to incorporate the Intertropical Convergence Zone.
Following the field operations, the Barbados Oceanographic and Meteorological Analysis Project (BOMAP) Office was established to reduce and process the data that had been collected by ship, aircraft, and land-based acquisition system under the operational control of the BOMEX Temporary Archive at the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) in Asheville, N.C., in 1971.
On July 1,1971, the BOMEX office became the Center for Experiment Design and Data Analysis (CEDDA) and was subsequently transferred from NOAA's Environmental Research Laboratories to its Environmental Data Service. One of the tasks assigned to CEDDA--in addition to its participation in other field experiments, was to reprocess the BOMEX data. Final validation of the data was undertaken through detailed analysis and application of necessary corrections, a task that was completed in the fall of 1974, when the BOMEX Permanent Archive was established at NCDC.
Entry_ID: NC00530 (MD Identifier: 611)
Temporal Coverage:
From: 1969-05-01 TO: 1969-07-31
Geographic Coverage:
Southwest Extent: 7N,60W Northeast Extent: 18N,52W
Source:
AIRCRAFT
BALLOONS
SHIPS
Sensor:
BLIP>Boundary Layer Instrument Package
RAWINSONDE
Storage Media:
Magnetic Tape
Campaign/Project:
CGC>NOAA Climate and Global Change Program
Discipline, Subdiscipline:
EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE
EARTH SCIENCE > LAND
EARTH SCIENCE > OCEAN
Location Keyword:
ATLANTIC OCEAN>North Atlantic Ocean
BOUNDARY LAYER
EQUATORIAL
TROPOSPHERE
Parameter Group, Parameter:
ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION > CLOUDS
Cloud Heights
ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION > HUMIDITY
Boundary Layer > Surface
ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE
Upper Level>Surface
ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS > CLOUD TYPES
ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS > HUMIDITY
Boundary Layer > Surface
ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS > PRECIPITATION
ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS > PRESSURE
Surface Pressure
ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS > VISIBILITY
ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS > WINDS
Boundary Layer > Surface
HYDROLOGIC PARAMETERS > PRECIPITATION
OCEAN DYNAMICS > TEMPERATURE
Sea Surface Temperature
OCEAN DYNAMICS > WAVES
General Keywords:
AMBIENT TEMPERATURE
BLIP
BOMEXSONDE
BOUNDARY LAYER
BOUNDARY LAYER HUMIDITY
BOUNDARY LAYER TEMPERATURE
BOUNDARY LAYER WINDS
CLIMATOLOGY
CLOUD HEIGHTS
CONTANT PRESSURE SURFACES
DIURNAL VARIATION
HYGRISTOR TEMPERATURE
METEOROLOGY
NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN
OCEANOGRAPHY
RAWINSONDE DATA
SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE
SURFACE
SURFACE HUMIDITY
SURFACE TEMPERATURE
SURFACE WINDS
TD-9671
UPPER LEVEL HUMIDITY
UPPER LEVEL TEMPERATURE
UPPER LEVEL WINDS
WATER VAPOR CONTENT
WEATHER
WET BULB TEMPERATURE
Revision Date: 1993-02-08
Archive:
NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC>National Climatic Data Center, NOAA
Data Set ID: TD-9671
Contact: ROSS, THOMAS
NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC
Federal Building
37 Battery Park Avenue
Asheville, NC 28801-2733
USA
Electronic Mail: INTERNET> TROSS@NCDC.NOAA.GOV
Phone: (704) 271-4994
Tech Contact: ROSS, THOMAS
NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC
Federal Building
37 Battery Park Avenue
Asheville, NC 28801-2733
USA
Electronic Mail: INTERNET> TROSS@NCDC.NOAA.GOV
Phone: (704) 271-4994
Entry Author: STEURER, PETER
NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC
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Phone: (704) 271-4445
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