King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) Meteorology

Real Time Data

The first KAUST-UOP Ocean Reference Station buoy was deployed on 11 October 2008 at 1209 UTC in the eastern Red Sea, at approximately 22°N, 38°E, in about 700 m of water. A fully-instrumented shore-side tower, located on the new KAUST campus, is nearby, at about 22°N, 39°E.
Times in data files reflect the end of the hour during which averaged data was collected.

 

Current Conditions at Tower

Local time is UTC +3

KAUST-I Tower at 2009/11/20 12:46 UTC

Air temperature 28.50 (°) Shortwave radiation 327.00 (W/m2) Wind speed 4.80 (m/s) Barometric pressure 1011.19 (dB)

Relative humidity 52.01(%) Longwave radiation 385.60 (W/m2) Wind direction to 124.70 (°)

Current Conditions at Buoy

Local time is UTC +3

KAUST-I ASIMet 2 at 2009/11/20 16:19 UTC Barometric pressure 1014.12 (dB) Air temperature 27.27 (°) Relative humidity 66.39(%) Wind speed 4.80 (m/s) Wind direction to 113.50 (°) Shortwave radiation 4.50 (W/m2) Longwave radiation 465.30 (W/m2) Precipitation 2.93 (mm) Sea surface temperature 24.70 (°) Sea surface salinity 1.13 (PSU)

KAUST-I Waves at 2009/11/22 13:09 UTC Wave height 0.70 (m) Mean wave direction 313.00 (°) Mean wave period 7.10 (seconds) KAUST-I Subsurface at 2009/11/22 12:24 UTC Temperature at 8 m nan (°) Temperature at 10 m nan (°) Salinity at 10 m nan (PSU) Temperature at 15 m nan (°) Salinity at 15m nan (PSU) Temperature at 30 m nan(°)

Real-time Data Overview

ASIMET

An ASIMet unit System 2, is transmitting data in near real time from the surface buoy using the Iridium satellite service. Real-time data files presented here contain unedited data for the latest 24 hours transmitted.

Waves

A WAMDAS wave instrument package, supplied by the National Data Buoy Center (NDBC), is deployed on the KAUST surface buoy. Data is available in edited form on the NDBC web site (station 23020), and data presented on this UOP page should be used with caution. It is provided as a convenience.

Subsurface T, S

An inductive modem is transmitting data from a series of sub-surface instruments deployed on the KAUST surface buoy. Data presented on this UOP page should be used with caution, as it is unedited, raw data as received via Iridium. It is provided here as a convenience.

See links at right for data files.

Sponsors:

King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)

Principal Investigator:

Dr. J. Farrar, Upper Ocean Processes Group, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Last updated: February 11, 2009