Data evaluation for a newly developed slack-line mooring buoy deployed in the Eastern Indian Ocean

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1195-1214

  Ueki, Iwao ^a   Fujii, Nobuhiro ^b   Masumoto, Yukio ^a   Mizuno, Keisuke ^a  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b MARINE WORKS JAPAN LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Buoy observations; Data processing; Indian Ocean

Indexed keywords

BUOY OBSERVATIONS; BUOY SYSTEM; CLIMATE RESEARCH; DATA COMPARISONS; DATA CONSISTENCY; DATA EVALUATION; DATA RECONSTRUCTION; FIELD EXPERIMENT; INDIAN OCEAN; MIXED LAYER; MOORED ARRAYS; MOORING BUOY; MOORING SYSTEM; ROOT MEAN SQUARES; SMALL SIZE; SURFACE BUOY; VERTICAL SHIFT;

BUOYS; DATA PROCESSING; FORECASTING; OCEANOGRAPHY; RESEARCH;

MOORING;

BUOY SYSTEM; CLIMATE PREDICTION; DATA PROCESSING; FORECASTING METHOD; MOORING SYSTEM; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; SEA SURFACE SALINITY; SENSOR; THERMOCLINE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (EAST);

EID: 77955583057     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JTECHO735.1     Document Type: Article

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