21 sites covering the Oresund (The Sound) and the adjacent Danish and Swedish coastal areas. The area is approximately 80 by 80 square kilometres; ranging in Easting from 320 to 400 km and in Northing from 6140 to 6220 km (UTM zone 33).

Air pressure; Air temperature; Cloud cover height and extent; Atmospheric humidity; Cloud type; Precipitation and evaporation; Wind strength and direction; Wave direction; Other wave statistics; Other meteorological measurements; Concentration of suspended particulate material in the water column; Ultra-violet (UV) radiation; Wind stress and shear; Spectral wave data parameters; Wave height and period statistics; Solar Radiation; Wave height estimates; Transport in the water column; Visible waveband radiance and irradiance measurements in the atmosphere; Atmospheric visibility and transparency; Long-wave radiation

The 1984 Oresund Experiment was an international project with the purpose of investigating the nature of turbulence and atmospheric dispersion over a land-water-land area. The main objective was to obtain a comprehensive data set suitable for verifying mesoscale meteorological and dispersion models in a coastal environment. The experiment was carried out over the 20-km-wide strait of Oresund between Denmark and Sweden. The meteorological observational network extended over an 80-km-wide cross-section through Oresund and a large proportion of the available micro- and meso-meteorological instrumentation in the Nordic countries was employed. In addition, considerable contributions were made by non-Nordic countries. The dispersion process was investigated by SF6 tracer experiments and by tetroon flights. The tracer measurements comprised time-averaged concentrations at several fixed positions in an arc-like set-up, and instantaneous concentrations from a van, a boat and an aircraft. Emphasis was put on conditions when the water was colder than the surrounding land-areas, which in the experimental period typically occurred during daytime. The experiment took place in the period May 15 to June 14, 1984. A special intensive measuring program was carried out from June 4-10. The experiment was a joint effort of 15 institutions situated in the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden) as well as in Belgium, the Federal Republic of Germany and the Netherlands.

Risoe National Laboratory, Technical University of Denmark, Wind Energy Department
P.O. Box 49 Frederiksborgvej 399
Roskilde

DK-4000
Denmark