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Mechanisms Responsible for Mesoscale Eddy Energy Dissipation (MeRMEED) Offshore of Great Abaco, Bahamas from 2015-2019.

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General  
Data holding centreBritish Oceanographic Data Centre
CountryUnited Kingdom  United Kingdom
Time period2015-2019
OngoingNo
Geographical area

Offshore of Great Abaco, Bahamas

Observations 
Parameters

Turbulence in the water column; Moored instrument depth; Salinity of the water column; Temperature of the water column; Electrical conductivity of the water column; Horizontal velocity of the water column (currents)

Instruments

CTD

Description 
Summary

The MeRMEED project aimed to determine and quantify how the interaction between mesoscale eddies and the steep slope along ocean western boundaries affects the dissispation of mesoscale eddies in these regions. The project comprised of a multi-platfrom programme involving ship-based and mooring-based obverations, including autonomous gliders, vertical microstructure profilers, CTDs and ADCPs. The MeRMEED project was run between 2015-2019, and focussed on the slope offshore of Great Abaco, Bahamas. The data contained in this dataset includes the data associated with three MeRMEED research expeditions aboard the R/V Walton Smith from 2016-12-01 to 2018-03-16. The data includes vertical microstructure profiler (VMP) measurements of the turbulent dissipation rate and temperature variance, profiles of temperature and conductivity from a CTD sensor attached to the VMP, and along-track meridional and zonal velocity profiles from a vessel mounted 75 kHz ADCP. Also included are two 75 KHz ADCPs mounted on the existing RAPID/MOCHA Western Boundary 1 mooring. The project was run by Eleanor Frajka-Williams (project PI) and Dafydd Gwyn Evans (post-doc) and funded by NERC Discovery Science grant NE/N001745/1.

OriginatorsNational Oceanography Centre (Southampton)
University of Southampton
Data web sitehttps://www.bodc.ac.uk/data/published_data_library/catalogue/10.5285/b465b7f1-6cb0-73f8-e053-6c86abc0914f/
Availability 
OrganisationBritish Oceanographic Data Centre
AvailabilityUnrestricted
ContactPolly Hadžiabdić (Head of the BODC Requests Team)
Address

British Oceanographic Data Centre
Joseph Proudman Building 6 Brownlow Street
Liverpool
Merseyside
L3 5DA
United Kingdom

Telephone+44 (0)782 512 0946
Facsimile+44 (0)151 795 4912
Emailenquiries@bodc.ac.uk
Administration 
Collating centreBritish Oceanographic Data Centre
Local identifier1048-NE-N001745-1
Global identifier7080
Last revised2020-11-20