SPURS: Salinity Processes in the Upper Ocean Regional Study

Archived Data

Notes
All data presented here should be considered provisional, as further further updates may be made. Please note the version date as well as the citation for any data you download.

A full description of the OceanSITES NetCDF specification used for UOP datasets is available on the OceanSITES web site. Variable "standard names" are taken from the Climate and Forecast NetCDF specification.

Meteorology and Surface Fluxes

SPURS-I meteorological data was collected by ASIMet loggers; duplicate sensors were deployed to ensure continuity of data, and the best data record was selected from each sensor pair. The ASIMET system provides measurements of wind velocity and direction, relative humidity, air and sea surface temperature, incoming shortwave radiation, longwave radiation, barometric pressure, and precipitation. More detailed information about this instrument package is available at /UOPinstruments/UOPinstruments.html.

Preliminary surface fluxes are calculated using the COARE Bulk Flux algorithm.

Type	Metadata	1-Minute data	Hourly averaged	1-Minute data	Hourly averaged
Meteorology	CDL	NetCDF	NetCDF	ASCII	ASCII
Surface Fluxes	CDL	NetCDF	NetCDF	ASCII	ASCII

Temperature and Salinity Data

Subsurface temperatures and salinity at 37 depths from 1.3m to 400m are recorded using a combination of instruments, mainly from Seabird Electronics, Inc.but including 5 XR-420s from Richard Brancker Research, Ltd.. A plot showing T/S data returnis also available.

Type	Metadata	5-Minute data	5-Minute data
Temperature and Salinity	CDL	NetCDF	ASCII

Page updated: March 16, 2018