King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) Meteorology

Real Time Data

The second UOP-KAUST buoy was deployed at 1400 UTC on 22 November 2009, in the eastern Red Sea, at approximately 22°N, 38°E, in about 700 m of water. It replaces the original buoy at this site, which was in use between 11 October 2008 and 21 November 2009.
Nearby, a fully-instrumented shore-side tower, located on the new KAUST campus, at about 22°N, 39°E, was re-instrumented on November 9.
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-II Tower at 2010/02/09 16:46 UTC

Air temperature 23.86 (°) Shortwave radiation 6.10 (W/m2) Wind speed 4.30 (m/s) Barometric pressure 1011.36 (dB)

Relative humidity 56.11(%) Longwave radiation 336.00 (W/m2) Wind direction to 134.10 (°)

Current Conditions at Buoy

Local time is UTC +3

KAUST-II ASIMet 1 at 2010/02/09 17:46 UTC Barometric pressure 1013.02 (dB) Air temperature 23.80 (°) Relative humidity 58.59(%) Wind speed 3.60 (m/s) Wind direction to 162.40 (°) Shortwave radiation 2.40 (W/m2) Longwave radiation 328.30 (W/m2) Precipitation 19.04 (mm) Sea surface temperature 26.18 (°) Sea surface salinity 38.93 (PSU)

KAUST Waves at 2010/02/09 19:09 UTC Wave height 0.30 (m) Mean wave direction 207.00 (°) Mean wave period 6.70 (seconds) KAUST-II Subsurface at 2010/02/09 18:02 UTC Temperature at 8 m 26.03 (°) Temperature at 10 m 26.18 (°) Salinity at 10 m 38.94 (PSU) Temperature at 15 m 26.16 (°) Salinity at 15m 38.92 (PSU) Temperature at 30 m 26.05(°)

Real-time Data Overview

ASIMET

An ASIMet meteorological package 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: November, 2009