EUREC4A-OA_FLUX_MAST : experiment Air-Sea Flux Mast Data

As part of the EUREC4A-OA project (H. Bellenger, S. Speich, LMD), which is the French oceanographic component of the larger EUREC4A field experiments, the “flux mast” national instrument was installed on the Reseach Vessel R/V Atalante from Genavir. The flux mast holds instruments that measure atmospheric turbulence and meteorological variables.

The collected data are used to estimate the turbulent fluxes of momentum and heat at the air-sea interface. Specifically, the flux mast instruments measure air pressure, air temperature, humidity, air refraction index, H2O, the three components of the wind vector, and the upward and downward solar and infrared radiation fluxes. The fluxes calculated are the latent and sensible heat fluxes, and the friction velocity.

DOI : https://www.seanoe.org/data/00661/77341/

Date (Publication): 2020-12-03T08:00:00

Purpose: The flux mast holds instruments that measure atmospheric turbulence and meteorological variables.

Status: Completed

Point of contact

MIO UMR 7294 CNRS - Denis Bourras ( )

Maintenance and update frequency: As needed

Distributor

MIO UMR 7294 CNRS - Denis Bourras

GEMET - Concepts, version 2.4

environmental data
meteorology
atmosphere

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Meteorological geographical features
Sea regions
Atmospheric conditions

Theme

meteorology
temperature
Air-SeaTurbulence
Fluxes
Radiation
Temperature
Humidity
Pressure
Wind speed

Access constraints: Copyright

Use constraints: otherRestictions

Spatial representation type: Vector

Denominator: 5000

Language: English

Character set: UTF8

Topic category

Oceans
Environment
Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere

Begin date: 2020-01-17

End date: 2020-01-17

Description: Equatorial Atlantic, Barbados

Supplemental Information: Equatorial Atlantic, Barbados

Reference system identifier: WGS 1984

Distribution format

NetCDF file ( 1.0 )

Distributor

MIO UMR 7294 CNRS - Denis Bourras

OnLine resource: Digital Object Identifier (DOI) ( DOI )

OnLine resource

Données EUREC4A-OA ( null )

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- BEI motion pack Inertial Motion Unit: Six degrees of freedom (three linear accelerations,three angular velocities), sampled at 50 Hz

- Gill HS-50 sonic anemometer: u, v, w wind components, and sonic temperature, at 50 Hz

- Campbell Li-Cor LI 7500 DS instrument: CO 2 (μmol/mol, mol/m3, absorbance), H 2 O (μmol/mol, mol/m3, absorbance), dew point, at 20 Hz

- weather station Vaisala WXT 520: Air temperature, relative humidity, and atmospheric pressure, wind direction, wind speed, and precipitation, at 1 Hz

- Campbell CNR4 pyranometer and pyrgeometer: Upward and downward radiation fluxes (solar and infrared) at 1 Hz

- GPS: position, followed route, and ship speed, at 1 Hz.