Volume transport, vertical-mean velocity and profile data from the AOML Western Boundary Time Series/Florida Current Transport project since 1982
This collection includes daily mean and raw voltage volume transport data of the Florida Current collected with a submarine cable spanning from South Florida to the Grand Bahama Island in the Florida Strait, dissolved oxygen, dynamic height, hydrostatic pressure, neutral density, potential temperature (theta), salinity, and water temperature profile data from CTD, oxygen meter, and XBT casts collected in Coastal Waters of Florida, North Atlantic Ocean, and Straits of Florida on various cruises, as well as data from a free-falling "dropsonde" float making measurements of vertical-mean horizontal velocity in the Florida Current along 27°N. These data were collected by NOAA's Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML) and Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL), and were submitted by AOML as part of the Atlantic Ocean Western Boundary Time Series (WBTS) / Florida Current Transport project.
Dataset Citation
- Cite as: Baringer, Molly O.; Meinen, Christopher S.; Goni, Gustavo J.; Domingues, Ricardo; Hooper, James; Volkov, Denis L.; Garcia Cordova, Joaquin Alberto; Ensenada Center for Scientific Investigation and Higher Education; NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (2012). Volume transport, vertical-mean velocity and profile data from the AOML Western Boundary Time Series/Florida Current Transport project since 1982. [indicate subset used]. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. Dataset. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/AOML-WBTS. Accessed [date].
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Time Period | 1982-03-18 to Present |
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West: -85.465
East: -67.457
South: 21.722
North: 35.453
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Dataset Progress Status | Ongoing - data is continually being updated Historical archive - data has been stored in an offline storage facility |
Data Update Frequency | As needed |
Supplemental Information | References: Meinen, C. S., M. O. Baringer, and R. F. Garcia (2010): Florida Current Transport Variability: An Analysis of Annual and Longer-Period Signals, Deep Sea Research I, 57 (7), 835-846, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2010.04.001. Larsen, J.C. (1992): Transport and heat flux of the Florida Current at 27°N derived from cross-stream voltages and profiling data: theory and observations. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London A, 338, 169-236, http://www.jstor.org/stable/53967. Larsen, J.C., and T.B. Sanford (1985): Florida Current volume transports from voltage measurements. Science, 227, 302-304, https://doi.org/10.1126/science.227.4684.302. |
Purpose | To monitor important climate signals, including variations in the Florida Current, water mass and transport signatures related to changes in the strengths and regions of high latitude water mass formation in the North Atlantic, interior dynamic height difference across the entire Atlantic basin and its associated baroclinic heat transport, and the intensity of the Antilles Current as an index (together with the Florida Current) of interannual variability in the strength of the subtropical gyre. |
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