Surface moorings: windows above and into the water column.

From: Oceanus | Date: March 22, 1995| Author: | Copyright information

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) has developed state of the art surface mooring. This is the only tool available to the oceanographer in collecting continuous and coincident data on both surface meteorology and ocean variability. Such data provide answers to questions regarding air-sea relationship and the process and effects of such interaction. The buoys have also provided data for the study of the physics and the acoustics, biology, and optics of the ocean's surface.

Some 70 percent of the earth's surface is ocean. Its waters store and transport heat, fresh water, carbon ...

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