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BODC Cruise Metadata Report for Polarfront cruise PF174B

Introduction

This report collates information from the BODC cruise inventory and oceanographic databases. It presents

Cruise Inventory Information

Long name Polarfront cruise PF174B
Short name PF174B
Objectives and Narrative The aim of HiWASE is to make direct measurement of the turbulent air-sea fluxes of sensible and latent heat, momentum and CO2 in order to improve the parameterisation of these fluxes in terms of mean meteorological and sea-state variables. In September 2006, instrumentation from the National Oceanographic Centre Southampton was installed on the Ocean Weather Ship MS Polarfront as part of the UK SOLAS project HiWASE led by Dr Margaret Yelland. The instruments will operate continuously for 3 years. Data will therefore be obtained in a wide range of conditions, particularly the poorly-understood high wind speed regime. Data are received via an iridium satellite message once per day and near real-time mean meteorological and wave data can be viewed on the HiWASE web site.
Ship Polarfront
Departure Port Ålesund, Norway
Departure Date 2008-07-09
Arrival Port Ålesund, Norway
Arrival Date 2008-08-06
Principal Scientist(s)
Responsible Organisation Unknown
Associated Project(s) UK-SOLAS HiWASE
IHB Sea Areas Visited
Marsden Squares Visited
Work Area Description Station Mike 66N;2E Norwegian Sea
Work Area Bounding Polygon
Southern Limit unknown
Northern Limit unknown
Western Limit unknown
Eastern Limit unknown

Cruise Inventory Datasets

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Cruise Inventory Mooring/Buoy Operations

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Summary of BODC Data Holdings for the Cruise

National Oceanographic Database

Summary

# Series Instrument Description Parameters
1 Fixed anemometer Data are currently being processed
4 Meteorological measurements with instrument aid Data are currently being processed

Note: Parameter terms are taken from the BODC Parameter Discovery Vocabulary XML (SKOS)

Full List

BODC Reference Instrument Description Date/Time Location  
772731 Fixed anemometer 2008-07-09 12:00:00Z to 2008-08-06 12:00:00Z Click for more
773630 Meteorological measurements with instrument aid 2008-07-09 12:00:00Z to 2008-08-06 12:00:00Z Click for more
773931 Meteorological measurements with instrument aid 2008-07-09 12:00:00Z to 2008-08-06 12:00:00Z Click for more
774504 Meteorological measurements with instrument aid 2008-07-09 12:00:00Z to 2008-08-06 12:00:00Z Click for more
814888 Meteorological measurements with instrument aid 2008-07-09 15:43:00Z to 2008-08-06 11:59:00Z Click for more

Project Database

No data currently held for this cruise in the BODC Project Database

References

Track Charts

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Reports

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