Release 2.5b     December 27, 1995

This data was collected with support from the U.S. National Science 
Foundation, grant OCE91-10559..  If you use any of these data in a 
publication, please acknowledge Dr. Robert Weller and the Woods Hole 
Oceanographic Institution when using the data.  


The data is from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution surface 
mooring deployed in the center of the IFA during the COARE IOP. 

We gratefully acknowledge Clayton Paulson, (OSU,USA), Chris Fairall 
(NOAA/WPL, USA) and Mike McPhaden (NOAA/PMEL, USA) for sharing their 
observations.


Release 2.5b     December 27, 1995
Notes:
   The wind speed is now the measured wind speed rather than the relative
   as given in the previous release.  
   
   The stmp is now the measured temperature at .45m depth.
   
   The file is uniformly spaced in time.  

   The rain data comes from a combination of ovservations from various
surface observing platform.  These platforms include the WHOI surface
buoy, R/V Wecoma, R/V Moana Wave and the ATLAS bouy at 2deg South.
The the wet bulb temperature is used as an estimate of the rain
temperature.  The rain data has been block averaged over 24 hours.

   A four day gap 12/9/92 00:33:45 to 12/13/92 05:11:45 was filled
with hourly data from Mike McPhadenÍs (PMEL) nearby ATLAS buoy (156
E, 2 S) that was regridded to our sample interval (wind, rh, sst,
atmp).  The previous four days of SW and BP were duplicated and
patched into the gap as a temporary solution for these missing
variables.

   Some gaps were present and the time series was linearly
interpolated in time to fill the gaps.

  Bad values or missing data are indicated by the value -99.99999

  Magnetic Variation correction has been applied = +7.67 degrees

Measurement heights above the sea surface:
     wind cup       3.54m
          vane      3.26m
     hrh            2.74m
     atmp           2.78m
     bpr            3.00m
     stmp           0.45m
     swadj2         3.54m
     lwadj          3.54m

Contact Dr. Robert Weller (rweller@whoi.edu  (508)289-2508), 
Dr. Steven Anderson (sanderson@whoi.edu) or Mr. Mark Baumgartner
(mbaumgartner@whoi.edu) if you have questions.