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Hydrographic observations at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Hawaii Ocean Time-Series Site (WHOTS): 2019-2021, Data Report #16

Abstract

In 2003, Robert Weller (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution [WHOI]) , Albert Plueddemann (WHOI), and Roger Lukas (The University of Hawaii [UH]) proposed to establish a long-term surface mooring at the Hawaii Ocean Time-series (HOT) Station ALOHA (22°45’N, 158°W) to provide sustained, high-quality air-sea fluxes and the associated upper ocean response as a coordinated part of the HOT program, and as an element of the global array of ocean reference stations supported by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Office of Climate Observation.

The WHOTS-16 mooring was deployed on October 6, 2019, during an eight-day cruise (WHOTS-16 cruise) and was recovered on August 28, 2021, during an eight-day cruise (WHOTS-17 cruise). The cruises were aboard the NOAA Oscar Sette. The seventeenth mooring was deployed on August 26, 2021, during the WHOTS-17 cruise and was recovered on July 25, 2022.

This report documents and describes the oceanographic observations made on the WHOTS-16 mooring for nearly one year and ten months and from shipboard measurements during the two cruises when the mooring was deployed and recovered. Sections II and III include a detailed description of the cruises and the mooring, respectively. Sampling and processing procedures of the hydrographic casts, thermosalinograph, and shipboard ADCP data collected during these cruises are described in Section IV. Section V includes the processing procedures for the data collected by the moored instruments: SeaCATs, MicroCATs, Moored ADCPs and VMCM. Plots of the resulting data and preliminary analysis ar presented in Section VI.

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• APA

Carvalho Pacheco, F., Santiago-Mandujano, F., Potemra, J. T., Plueddemann, A. J., Weller, R. A., Fitzgerald, D., & Galbraith, N. R. (2022). Hydrographic Observations at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Hawaii Ocean Time-Series Site (WHOTS): 2019-2021, Data Report #16. School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST), Department of Oceanography, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7312691

• Bibtex

@techreport{Carvalho_Pacheco_Hydrographic_Observations_at_2022,
  author = {Carvalho Pacheco, Fernando and Santiago-Mandujano, Fernando and Potemra, James T. and Plueddemann, Albert J. and Weller, Robert A. and Fitzgerald, Daniel and Galbraith, Nancy R.},
  doi = {10.5281/zenodo.7312691},
  institution = {School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST), Department of Oceanography, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI}, title = {{Hydrographic Observations at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Hawaii Ocean Time-Series Site (WHOTS): 2019-2021, Data Report #16}},
  url = {http://whots16-data-report.readthedocs.io/},
  year = {2022},
  note = {This publication is based upon observations from the WHOI-Hawaii Ocean Time-series Site (WHOTS) mooring, which is supported in part by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Global Ocean Monitoring and Observing (GOMO) Program through the Cooperative Institute for the North Atlantic Region (CINAR) under Cooperative Agreement NA14OAR4320158. NOAA CPO FundRef number 100007298 to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and by National Science Foundation grants OCE-0327513,OCE-0752606, OCE-0926766, OCE-1260164 and OCE-1756517 to the University of Hawaii for the Hawaii Ocean Time-series. This is SOEST contribution number 11592.}
}

Acknowledgements

• Many people participated in the WHOTS mooring deployment/recovery cruises See Table 2.1 and Table 2.4

• Thanks are due to all the personnel of the Upper Ocean Processes Group (UOP) at WHOI who prepared the WHOTS buoy’s instrumentation and mooring;

• To Kelsey Maloney, Tully Rohrer, Noah Howins, Ryan Tabata, and James Harris for their technical assistance with the moored and shipboard instrumentation;

• We gratefully acknowledge the support from the colleagues at Sea-Bird to maintain the quality of the CTD data.

• We would also like to thank the captains and crew of the Ship Oscar Sette, and the University of Hawaii (UH) Marine Center staff for their efforts.

• This publication is based upon observations from the WHOI-Hawaii Ocean Time-series Site (WHOTS) mooring, which is supported in part by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Global Ocean Monitoring and Observing (GOMO) Program through the Cooperative Institute for the North Atlantic Region (CINAR) under Cooperative Agreement NA14OAR4320158. NOAA CPO FundRef number 100007298 to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and by National Science Foundation grants OCE-0327513, OCE-0752606 , OCE-0926766 , OCE-1260164 and OCE-1756517 to the University of Hawaii for the Hawaii Ocean Time-series.

• This is SOEST contribution number 11592.

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