Project NTAS - Northwest Tropical Atlantic Station for air-sea flux measurement

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Related Information

NTAS-I
Deployment Cruise Report
Time series plot


NTAS-II
Deployment Cruise Report
Time series plot


NTAS-III
Deployment Cruise Report

NTAS-IV
Deployment Cruise Report

Archived Data

Available Data
The ASIMET meteorological sensors on the buoy provided a record of:

  • Wind velocity
  • Relative Humidity
  • Air and Sea surface Temperatures
  • Incoming Shortwave Radiation
  • Incoming Longwave Radiation
  • Barometric Pressure
  • Precipitation

Download Data
NetCDF (OceanSITES standard) files are available for download. All data presented here should be considered preliminary as further adjustments to the data may be needed. Please note the version date as well as the citation for any data you download.


NTAS-I

The first NTAS buoy was deployed during Oceanus cruise 365 and recovered during the Ronald H. Brown NTAS-II cruise.

Set: March 30, 2001 23:17 UTC
Recovered: March 6, 2002 10:08 UTC
Position: 14° 50´N, 51° 00´W
Depth: 4942 meters

NetCDFmetadata
OS_NTAS_200103_M.nc OS_NTAS_200103_M.nc.meta


NTAS-II

The second NTAS buoy was deployed during a cruise onboard the R.V. Ronald H. Brown, and recovered from the Oceanus.

Set: March 04, 2002 22:18 UTC
Recovered: February 16, 2003 12:06 UTC
Position: 14° 50´N, 51° 00´W
Depth: 4942 meters

NetCDFmetadata
OS_NTAS_200203_M.nc OS_NTAS_200203_M.nc.meta


NTAS-III

The third NTAS buoy was deployed during the OC 385-5 cruise on the R/V Oceanus and recovered on cruise RB-04-01 on the R/V Ronald H. Brown. The mooring went adrift on February 15 at 18:10 UTC and was recovered on February 19 at about 16:00 UTC.

Set: Feb 15, 2003, 05:47 UTC
Recovered: Feb 19, 2004 16:00 UTC
Position: 14° 50´N, 51° 02´W
Depth: 4977 meters

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OS_NTAS_200302_M.nc OS_NTAS_200302_M.nc.meta


NTAS-IV

The fourth NTAS buoy was deployed during cruise RB-04-01 on the R/V Ronald H. Brown, and recovered during RB-05-02 on the R/V Ronald H. Brown.

Set: Feb 21, 2004 03:16 UTC
Recovered: Mar 13, 2005, 14:20 UTC
Position: 14° 44´N, 50° 56´W
Depth: 5048 meters

NetCDFmetadata
OS_NTAS_200402_M.nc OS_NTAS_200402_M.nc.meta


NTAS-V

The fifth NTAS buoy was deployed during during cruise RB-05-02 on the R/V Ronald H. Brown and recovered during RB-06-01 on the R/V Ronald H. Brown.

Set: Mat 11, 2005, 19:35 UTC
Recovered: Feb 28, 2006, 12:39 UTC
Position: 14° 41´N, 51° 03´W
Depth: 5107 meters

NetCDFmetadata
OS_NTAS_200502_M.nc OS_NTAS_200502_M.nc.meta


Last updated: March 3, 2008