TOGA-TAO Atlas Mooring Thermistor Chain Array Data

BRIEF

Begun by NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory in 1984, ATLAS is an inexpensive mooring system whose data are telemetered to shore via the ARGOS system on NOAA Polar-Orbiting satellites. These 17 files consist of ATLAS (Autonomous Temperature Line Acquisition System) mooring thermister chain array wind, air temperature, sea surface, and subsurface temperature data for 1989. This system is part of the Tropical Ocean-Global Atmosphere (TOGA) program, with the Tropical Atmosphere Ocean (TAO) Array being one element of this system. ATLAS measures the following 14 variables: the u and v component of the wind; air temperature; sea surface temperature; and the water temperature at depths of 20, 40, 60, 80, 100, 120, 140, 180, 300, and 500 meters. Each file contains data for a single mooring location for up to a year. Generally, the file consists of daily average data, but for days that have no data, values are omitted from the listings. These files are recorded on a 9-track, 1600 BPI magnetic tape in ASCII format.

ATTRIBUTES

Entry_ID: FWA00246 (MD Identifier: 993)
 
Temporal Coverage:
     From: 1989-01-01                 TO:  
 
Geographic Coverage:
     Southwest Extent: 5S,165E     Northeast Extent:  9N,110W
 
Source:
     BUOYS
 
Sensor:
     ANEMOMETER
     PRESSURE GAUGES
     SHIPS/BUOYS/MOORINGS
     THERMOMETER
     WIND RECORDERS
 
Storage Media:
     Magnetic Tape
 
Campaign/Project:
     TOGA>Tropical Ocean-Global Atmosphere
 
Discipline, Subdiscipline:
     EARTH SCIENCE                   > ATMOSPHERE
     EARTH SCIENCE                   > OCEAN
 
Location Keyword:
     EQUATORIAL>Equatorial Pacific Ocean
     GLOBAL
     PACIFIC OCEAN
     SEA SURFACE
 
Parameter Group, Parameter:
     ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS            > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE
        SURFACE TEMPERATURE
 
     ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS            > WINDS
        SURFACE WINDS
 
     OCEAN DYNAMICS                  > PRESSURE
     OCEAN DYNAMICS                  > SEA LEVEL
     OCEAN DYNAMICS                  > TEMPERATURE
     OCEAN DYNAMICS                  > WINDS
 
General Keywords:
     ATLAS
     IDN_NODE GSFC/NOAA/NESDIS/NODC
     SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE
     SURFACE
     SURFACE TEMPERATURE
     SURFACE WINDS
     TAO
     THERMISTOR CHAIN
 
Revision Date: 1993-03-19
 
Quality Statement:
 

These data are stored in the format in which they were received by NODC, and
data quality is dependent on the originator's quality control.

DATACENTER

Archive: 
   NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC>National Climatic Data Center
 
   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
 
Archive: 
   NOAA/NESDIS/NODC>National Oceanographic Data Center
   Data Set ID: ACC#8900241 (REF#L00702)
                ACC#9000110 (REF#L00914)
                ACC#9100037 (REF#L01301)
 
   Contact: NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA CENTER,  
            User Services Branch
            NOAA/NESDIS E/OC21
            1825 Connecticut Avenue, NW
            Washington, DC 20235
            USA
 
            Electronic Mail: SPAN> NODC::SERVICES
                             TELEMAIL> NODC.WDCA/OMNET
 
            Phone: 202-606-4549
                   FTS 266-4549

PERSONNEL

Investigator: MANGUM, LINDA 
              TAO Project Office
              NOAA/PMEL/OCRD
              7600 Sand Point Way N.E.
              Seattle, WA 98115
              USA
 
              Electronic Mail: OMNET> L.MANGUM
 
              Phone: 206-526-6740
                     FTS 392-6740
 
Entry Author: GRIMM, PETER L.
              Environmental Information Services
              NOAA/NESDIS/EIs Ex2, Room 506
              1825 Connecticut Avenue, N.W.
              Washington, D.C. 20235
              USA
 
              Electronic Mail: INTERNET> GRIMM@NODC2.NODC.NOAA.GOV
                               NSI/DECNET> NODC2::GRIMM
 
              Phone: (202) 606-5008
 
 
Information in this entry provided by NOAA/NESDIS/NODC

REFERENCE


Hayes, S.P., L.J. Magnum, J. Picaut, A. Sumi, and K. Takeuchi, TOGA-TAO: A
moored array for real-time measurements in the Tropical Pacific Ocean, Bulletin
of the American Meteorological Society, Vol. 72, March 1991, pp. 339-347.

SUP_MENU

   1. Campaign: TOGA>Tropical Ocean-Global Atmosphere
  
   2. Sensor: SALINITY/TEMP/DEPTH (CTD/STD)