King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) Meteorology

Real Time Data

The first KAUST-UOP Ocean Reference Station buoy was deployed on 11 October 2008 at 1209 UTC in the eastern Red Sea, at approximately 22°N, 38°E, in about 700 m of water. A fully-instrumented shore-side tower, located on the new KAUST campus, is nearby, at about 22°N, 39°E.
Times in data files reflect the end of the hour during which averaged data was collected.

 

Current Conditions at Tower

Local time is UTC +3

KAUST-I Tower at 2009/11/07 11:46 UTC

Air temperature 30.43 (°) Shortwave radiation 595.50 (W/m2) Wind speed 0.00 (m/s) Barometric pressure 1008.41 (dB)

Relative humidity 63.65(%) Longwave radiation 394.50 (W/m2) Wind direction to 0.00 (°)

Current Conditions at Buoy

Local time is UTC +3

KAUST-I ASIMet 2 at 2009/11/07 08:20 UTC Barometric pressure 1012.18 (dB) Air temperature 31.24 (°) Relative humidity 56.05(%) Wind speed 0.10 (m/s) Wind direction to 17.10 (°) Shortwave radiation 606.10 (W/m2) Longwave radiation 400.50 (W/m2) Precipitation 2.89 (mm) Sea surface temperature 30.62 (°) Sea surface salinity 39.01 (PSU)

KAUST-I Waves at 2009/11/07 11:09 UTC Wave height 0.50 (m) Mean wave direction 295.00 (°) Mean wave period 5.90 (seconds) KAUST-I Subsurface at 2009/11/07 08:24 UTC Temperature at 8 m 30.30 (°) Temperature at 10 m 30.30 (°) Salinity at 10 m 39.17 (PSU) Temperature at 15 m 30.30 (°) Salinity at 15m 39.15 (PSU) Temperature at 30 m 30.35(°)

Real-time Data Overview

ASIMET

An ASIMet unit System 2, is transmitting data in near real time from the surface buoy using the Iridium satellite service. Real-time data files presented here contain unedited data for the latest 24 hours transmitted.

Waves

A WAMDAS wave instrument package, supplied by the National Data Buoy Center (NDBC), is deployed on the KAUST surface buoy. Data is available in edited form on the NDBC web site (station 23020), and data presented on this UOP page should be used with caution. It is provided as a convenience.

Subsurface T, S

An inductive modem is transmitting data from a series of sub-surface instruments deployed on the KAUST surface buoy. Data presented on this UOP page should be used with caution, as it is unedited, raw data as received via Iridium. It is provided here as a convenience.

See links at right for data files.

Sponsors:

King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)

Principal Investigator:

Dr. J. Farrar, Upper Ocean Processes Group, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Last updated: February 11, 2009