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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 centre | British Oceanographic Data Centre |
Country | United Kingdom |
Time period | 2015-2019 |
Ongoing | No |
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. |
Originators | National Oceanography Centre (Southampton) University of Southampton |
Data web site | https://www.bodc.ac.uk/data/published_data_library/catalogue/10.5285/b465b7f1-6cb0-73f8-e053-6c86abc0914f/ |
Availability | |
Organisation | British Oceanographic Data Centre |
Availability | Unrestricted |
Contact | Polly Hadžiabdić (Head of the BODC Requests Team) |
Address | British Oceanographic Data Centre |
Telephone | +44 (0)782 512 0946 |
Facsimile | +44 (0)151 795 4912 |
enquiries@bodc.ac.uk | |
Administration | |
Collating centre | British Oceanographic Data Centre |
Local identifier | 1048-NE-N001745-1 |
Global identifier | 7080 |
Last revised | 2020-11-20 |