Current Projects

The primary focus of the Upper Ocean Processes Group is the study of physical processes in the upper ocean and at the air-sea interface using moored surface buoys equipped with meteorological and oceanographic sensors.

Current projects include surface mooring deployments under the stratus cloud deck in the eastern tropical Pacific (Stratus), a collaborative site 100 km north of Oahu at the WHOI Hawaii Ocean Time-series Site (WHOTS), and a surface mooring in the central North Pacific that is part of an observational program to study air-sea interaction in atmospheric rivers (SAFARI). Recently completed is a long-term mooring in the trade wind region of the northwest tropical Atlantic (NTAS).

Schematic drawing of processes that contribute to variability in the ocean surface boundary layer. [R. Weller, WHOI]