Project NTAS - Northwest Tropical Atlantic Station for air-sea flux measurement

Sponsors
to NOAA Web sitePrincipal funding is provided by (NOAA) Office of Climate Observations (OCO).
Data Links
See Data Archive page, above for delayed-mode data.
NTAS-XII
Deployed: December 3, 2012
Argos
Text files:
Daily transmission: Logger 12     Logger 16
Complete listing: ASIMet1     ASIMet2
NetCDF files:
Data: Logger 12     Logger 16
Metadata: Logger 12     Logger 16
Plots: plot 1     plot 2


NTAS-XI
Deployed: November 25, 2011
Argos
Text files:
ASIMet1     ASIMet2
NetCDF files:
Data: Logger 3     Logger 6
Metadata: Logger 3     Logger 6
Plots: plot 1     plot 2


Real Time Data

NTAS-XII

The twelfth NTAS buoy was launched December3,2012, at 21:14 UTC. Real time data is sent back to shore by several subsystems on the buoy. Argos transmitters relay met data from the two ASIMet loggers on the buoy, and a subsurface telemetry system, consisting of an inductive modem transmitting via Iridium, sends back data from several instruments on the mooring line. Links to near-real-time data are on the right-hand column of this page.


Meteorology

Hourly meteorological data for the current deployment of the NTAS buoy are recieved via Service Argos four times daily. Data is displayed as time series and available for download as ASCII files a well as OceanSITES NetCDF files.


A note on resolution, and one on ASIMet data formats.

NTAS imet fig 1 NTAS imet fig 2


Subsurface Data

The NTAS 12 subsurface telemetry system uses an inductive subsystem developed at WHOI, and transmits via an Iridium modem.

The inductive modem transmits data from 3 SBE 37s and 2 SBE 39s. A clock time is provided by the Seabird Inductive Modem (SIM) and represents the time of receipt of the last sample by the SIM. To adjust the time word in the Iridium data stream, we have subtracted 30 minutes, so time is approximately at the center of the hourly sample.
Plots of temperature are updated about every 4 hours:

NTAS ss temp
Inductive data listings: Daily or Complete
Full time series plots: Temperature

Subsurface Instrumentation

The instruments are sampled once per hour. The ID# controls the position of the instruments' data within the Iridium message.

IDdepthtypeSN
710SBE394465
4113Aqdp5973
425SBE37669
545SBE37684
365SBE37686
880SBE394466

Wave Data

The NTAS 10, 11 and 12 buoys have been equipped with NDBC WAMDAS Wave systems. Wave data is available at NDBC's Station 41060 page.

Last updated: December 8, 2012.