SPURS-2 Rawinsonde meteorological data for the E. Tropical Pacific field campaign R/V Revelle cruises

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The SPURS (Salinity Processes in the Upper Ocean Regional Study) project is NASA-funded oceanographic process study and associated field program that aim to elucidate key mechanisms responsible for near-surface salinity variations in the oceans. The project involves two field campaigns and a series of cruises in regions of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans exhibiting salinity extremes. SPURS employs a suite of state-of-the-art in-situ sampling technologies that, combined with remotely sensed salinity fields from the Aquarius/SAC-D, SMAP and SMOS satellites, provide a detailed characterization of salinity structure over a continuum of spatio-temporal scales. The SPURS-2 campaign involved two month-long cruises by the R/V Revelle in August 2016 and October 2017 combined with complementary sampling on a more continuous basis over this period by the schooner Lady Amber. Focused around a central mooring located near 10N,125W, the objective of SPURS-2 was to study the dynamics of the rainfall-dominated surface ocean at the western edge of the eastern Pacific fresh pool subject to high seasonal variability and strong zonal flows associated with the North Equatorial Current and Countercurrent. A Rawinsonde is a helium balloon carrying meteorological instruments and a radar target, enabling the velocity of atmospheric parameters to be measured. During the first Revelle cruise, rawinsondes were launched every 6-hours, providing a total of 85 profiles of temperature, humidity, wind speed and direction through the marine atmospheric boundary layer within the SPURS-2 domain. Similarly, during the second Revelle cruise, rawinsondes were deployed four-times daily within the study area over the 3-week period. SPURS2 rawinsonde data are available as netCDF, CF-compliant data files.

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5 https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov%2FCitingPODAAC
5 https://archive.podaac.earthdata.nasa.gov%2Fpodaac-ops-cumulus-docs%2Finsitu%2Fopen%2FL2%2Fspurs2%2Fdocs%2FDataDocumentation%2FReadmeCFT_2016.pdf
5 https://archive.podaac.earthdata.nasa.gov%2Fpodaac-ops-cumulus-docs%2Finsitu%2Fopen%2FL2%2Fspurs2%2Fdocs%2FCruiseReports%2FSPURS2-2016-Cruise-Report.pdf
5 http://spurs.jpl.nasa.gov%2F
5 http://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov%2Fspurs
5 https://cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov%2Fvirtual-directory%2Fcollections%2FC2491772347-POCLOUD
5 https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov%2Fsearch%2Fgranules%3Fp%3DC2491772347-POCLOUD
5 https://github.com%2Fpodaac%2Fdata-readers
5 https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov%2FPodaac%2Fthumbnails%2FSPURS2_RAWINSONDE.jpg
5 https://cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/virtual-directory/collections/C2491772347-POCLOUD
5 https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/CitingPODAAC
33 ReadmeCFT_2016.pdf https://archive.podaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/podaac-ops-cumulus-docs/insitu/open/L2/spurs2/docs/DataDocumentation/ReadmeCFT_2016.pdf
5 http://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/spurs
5 https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/granules?p=C2491772347-POCLOUD
33 SPURS2-2016-Cruise-Report.pdf https://archive.podaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/podaac-ops-cumulus-docs/insitu/open/L2/spurs2/docs/CruiseReports/SPURS2-2016-Cruise-Report.pdf
5 https://github.com/podaac/data-readers
22 SPURS2_RAWINSONDE.jpg https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/Podaac/thumbnails/SPURS2_RAWINSONDE.jpg
5 http://spurs.jpl.nasa.gov/

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  • earth-science-atmospheric-winds-atmosphere-wind-profiles
  • earth-science-humidity-indices-atmosphere-humidity
  • earth-science-atmospheric-temperature-atmosphere-air-temperature
  • earth-science-ocean-winds-oceans-surface-winds

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