Naval Postgraduate School FLUX buoy: data report for the MUSE deployment August - September 2000 Monterey Bay, California
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Fredrickson, Paul A.
Davidson, Kenneth L.
Jones, F. Keith
Neta, Tamar
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2001-04-05
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Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School
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The Boundary Layer Studies Group (BLSG) of the Department of Meteorology, Naval Postgraduate School (NPS), deployed its 'Flux' buoy in Monterey Bay in July-November 2000 as part of the MUSE collaborative research project. the Flux buoy (FB) is a 2 m diameter disk buoy instrumented with sensors to measure mean environmental parameters, atmospheric turbulence quantities and spectral wave data. This data report provides details of the flux buoy and specific information on the MUSE deployment. The details of the flux buoy MUSE deployment are presented in section 2. The buoy measurements are described in section 3 and the data processing and analysis methods are described in section 4. Finally, the format of the data files is presented in section 5. (from the Introduction)
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Report
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Applied Mathematics
Meteorology
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Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
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19 p.
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Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.