gov.noaa.nodc:0170257 eng utf8 dataset NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information ncei.info@noaa.gov https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/contact HTTPS NOAA Contact Information Information for contacts at NCEI. information custodian 2025-10-02T13:03:38Z ISO 19115-2 Geographic Information - Metadata - Part 2: Extensions for Imagery and Gridded Data ISO 19115-2:2009(E) CAPRICORN 2016 Field campaign: surface meteorological data and turbulent fluxes collected from the RV Investigator by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in the Indian and South Pacific Oceans from 2016-03-14 to 2016-04-15 (NCEI Accession 0170257) 2018-01-26 publication 2018-01-25 creation International DOI Foundation (IDF) 10.7289/v5q81bbc NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information gov.noaa.nodc:0170257 NCEI Archive Management System 0170257 NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information ncei.info@noaa.gov https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/contact HTTPS NCEI Contact Information Information for contacts at NCEI. information publisher Ludovic Bariteau University of Colorado Boulder, Cooperative Institute for Research In Environmental Sciences (CIRES) ludovic.bariteau@noaa.gov https://cires.colorado.edu/ HTTPS University of Colorado Boulder, Cooperative Institute for Research In Environmental Sciences (CIRES) website Institution web page information resourceProvider christopher fairall NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL) chris.fairall@noaa.gov https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/ HTTPS NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL) website Institution web page information principalInvestigator Byron Blomquist University of Colorado Boulder, Cooperative Institute for Research In Environmental Sciences (CIRES) byron.blomquist@noaa.gov https://cires.colorado.edu/ HTTPS University of Colorado Boulder, Cooperative Institute for Research In Environmental Sciences (CIRES) website Institution web page information collaborator Sergio Pezoa NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL) sergio.pezoa@noaa.gov https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/ HTTPS NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL) website Institution web page information collaborator LUDOVIC BARITEAU University of Colorado Boulder, Cooperative Institute for Research In Environmental Sciences (CIRES) ludovic.bariteau@noaa.gov https://cires.colorado.edu/ HTTPS University of Colorado Boulder, Cooperative Institute for Research In Environmental Sciences (CIRES) website Institution web page information collaborator Bariteau, Ludovic University of Colorado - Boulder Cooperative Institute for Research In Environmental Sciences sergio.pezoa@noaa.gov https://cires.colorado.edu/ HTTPS University of Colorado Boulder, Cooperative Institute for Research In Environmental Sciences (CIRES) website Institution web page information author Fairall, Christopher NOAA OAR Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL) chris.fairall@noaa.gov https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/ HTTPS NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL) website Institution web page information author Blomquist, Byron University of Colorado - Boulder Cooperative Institute for Research In Environmental Sciences byron.blomquist@noaa.gov https://cires.colorado.edu/ HTTPS University of Colorado Boulder, Cooperative Institute for Research In Environmental Sciences (CIRES) website Institution web page information author Pezoa, Sergio NOAA OAR Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL) sergio.pezoa@noaa.gov https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/ HTTPS NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL) website Institution web page information author LUDOVIC BARITEAU University of Colorado Boulder, Cooperative Institute for Research In Environmental Sciences (CIRES) ludovic.bariteau@noaa.gov https://cires.colorado.edu/ HTTPS University of Colorado Boulder, Cooperative Institute for Research In Environmental Sciences (CIRES) website Institution web page information pointOfContact NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL) https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/ HTTPS NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL) website Institution web page information contributor tableDigital The data contained within this file covers about 40 days of surface meteorological data and turbulent fluxes at sea south of Tasmania from 14 March to 16 April 2016. This is part of the CAPRICORN (Clouds, Aerosols, Precipitation, Radiation, and Atmospheric Composition over the Southern Ocean) 2016 project. The data come from two sources, the NOAA ESRL PSD's flux system and the instruments permanently installed on the RV Investigator. NOAA's flux system is an instrument package that makes direct measurements of the exchange or flux of heat, water, and momentum between the atmosphere and the ocean. The system also measures meteorological variables such as sea surface temperature, wind speed, air temperature, humidity. Together, this information can be used to estimate how the ocean and atmosphere exchange heat in weather and climate models. The dataset contains both direct measurement and model outputs (COARE 3.5). The averaging period is 10 minutes. Data have been corrected for known measurement issues when possible and quality control flags are included to reject bad data due to ship contamination or maneuvering. 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Funding Agency: NOAA Climate Program Office, Climate Observation Division completed historicalArchive NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information ncei.info@noaa.gov https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/contact HTTPS NCEI Contact Information Information for contacts at NCEI. information pointOfContact asNeeded https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/metadata/landing-page/bin/gfx?id=gov.noaa.nodc:0170257 Preview graphic PNG 0170257 NCEI ACCESSION NUMBER 2017-08-08 publication AIR TEMPERATURE BAROMETRIC PRESSURE CLEAR-SKY RADIANCE FLUX - HEAT LATITUDE LONGITUDE PRECIPITATION RATE RELATIVE HUMIDITY SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE WATER TEMPERATURE WIND DIRECTION WIND SPEED wind stress xCO2 atmosphere theme NODC DATA TYPES THESAURUS anemometer GPS humidity sensor pressure sensor pyranometer rain gauge temperature sensor thermistor thermosalinograph instrument NODC INSTRUMENT TYPES THESAURUS in situ model output theme NODC OBSERVATION TYPES THESAURUS RV Investigator platform NODC PLATFORM NAMES THESAURUS NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory dataCentre NODC COLLECTING INSTITUTION NAMES THESAURUS Indian Ocean South Pacific Ocean place NODC SEA AREA NAMES THESAURUS oceanography theme WMO_CategoryCode 2012-09-15 publication Climate Observations Division (COD - NOAA) Clouds, Aerosols, Precipitation, Radiation, and Atmospheric Composition over the Southern Ocean (CAPRICORN) 2016 project Provider Project Names EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY > CARBON AND HYDROCARBON COMPOUNDS > ATMOSPHERIC CARBON DIOXIDE EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR > WATER VAPOR INDICATORS > HUMIDITY > RELATIVE HUMIDITY EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > SURFACE WINDS > WIND DIRECTION EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > SURFACE WINDS > WIND SPEED EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION > PRECIPITATION RATE EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN HEAT BUDGET > HEAT FLUX EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN OPTICS > RADIANCE EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN TEMPERATURE > SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN TEMPERATURE > WATER TEMPERATURE EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN WINDS > WIND STRESS theme Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Science Keywords 2026 revision 24 Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Greenbelt MD https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD%2BKeywords HTTPS GCMD Keyword Forum Page Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2025. 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You may copy and paste the FTP link to the data into an FTP client (e.g., FileZilla or WinSCP). download dataset NCEI Accession 0170257 v1.1 was published. 2018-01-26T23:47:17Z NCEI Accession 0170257 v1.1 publication https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/0170257/1.1 HTTPS NCEI Accession 0170257 v1.1 published 2018-01-26T23:47:17Z download dataset Data Type: AIR TEMPERATURE (measured); Units: degrees Celsius; Observation Type: in situ; Sampling Instrument: Temperature Sensors; Sampling and Analyzing Method: ; Data Quality Information: Data Type: RELATIVE HUMIDITY (measured); Units: %; Observation Type: in situ; Sampling Instrument: Humidity Sensor; Sampling and Analyzing Method: ; Data Quality Information: Data Type: SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (measured); Units: degrees Celsius; Observation Type: in situ; Sampling Instrument: thermistor; Sampling and Analyzing Method: ; Data Quality Information: Data Type: BAROMETRIC PRESSURE (measured); Units: bar; Observation Type: in situ; Sampling Instrument: pressure sensors; Sampling and Analyzing Method: ; Data Quality Information: Data Type: WIND SPEED (measured); Units: meters per second; Observation Type: in situ; Sampling Instrument: anemometer; Sampling and Analyzing Method: ; Data Quality Information: Data Type: PRECIPITATION RATE (measured); Units: mm/hr; Observation Type: in situ; Sampling Instrument: rain gauge; Sampling and Analyzing Method: ; Data Quality Information: Data Type: WIND DIRECTION (measured); Units: degree; Observation Type: in situ; Sampling Instrument: anemometer; Sampling and Analyzing Method: ; Data Quality Information: Data Type: LATITUDE (measured); Units: degrees north; Observation Type: in situ; Sampling Instrument: GPS; Sampling and Analyzing Method: ; Data Quality Information: Data Type: LONGITUDE (measured); Units: degrees east; Observation Type: in situ; Sampling Instrument: GPS; Sampling and Analyzing Method: ; Data Quality Information: Data Type: solar downwelling radiative flux (measured); Units: W/m^2; Observation Type: in situ; Sampling Instrument: pyranometer; Sampling and Analyzing Method: ; Data Quality Information: Data Type: IR downwelling radiative flux (measured); Units: W/m^2; Observation Type: in situ; Sampling Instrument: pyrgeometer; Sampling and Analyzing Method: ; Data Quality Information: Data Type: WATER TEMPERATURE (measured); Units: degrees Celsius; Observation Type: in situ; Sampling Instrument: thermosalinographs; Sampling and Analyzing Method: ; Data Quality Information: Data Type: FLUX - HEAT (measured); Units: W/m^2; Observation Type: in situ; Sampling Instrument: Anemometer and IRGA; Sampling and Analyzing Method: Covariance and Inertial Dissipation methods; Data Quality Information: Data Type: wind stress (measured); Units: N/m^2; Observation Type: in situ; Sampling Instrument: anemometer; Sampling and Analyzing Method: Covariance and Inertial Dissipation methods; Data Quality Information: Data Type: FLUX - HEAT (calculated); Units: W/m^2; Observation Type: model output; Sampling Instrument: COARE3.5; Sampling and Analyzing Method: ; Data Quality Information: Data Type: wind stress (calculated); Units: N/m^2; Observation Type: model output; Sampling Instrument: COARE3.5; Sampling and Analyzing Method: ; Data Quality Information: Data Type: xCO2 atmosphere (measured); Units: ppm; Observation Type: in situ; Sampling Instrument: IRGA; Sampling and Analyzing Method: ; Data Quality Information: Data Type: navigational data (measured); Units: m/s and degrees; Observation Type: in situ; Sampling Instrument: GPS; Sampling and Analyzing Method: Platform course, orientation and speed; Data Quality Information: Data Type: CLEAR-SKY RADIANCE (calculated); Units: W/m^2; Observation Type: model output; Sampling Instrument: N/A; Sampling and Analyzing Method: ; Data Quality Information: asNeeded Metadata are developed, maintained and distributed by NCEI. Updates are performed as needed to maintain currentness. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information custodian anemometer anemometer measures wind speed An anemometer is an instrument that measures wind speed. Note that an aerovane (insttypes_id 175) is an anemometer which has a tail and a propeller to measure the speed and direction of the wind. GPS GPS Global Positioning System receiver satellite-based instrument used for geo-location, positioning and navigation humidity sensor humidity sensor HUMIDITY SENSORS are devices that receive a signal or stimulus (as heat or pressure or light or motion etc.) and responds to it, in this case humidity or some measure of the water vapor content of air. pressure sensor pressure sensor GCMD instruments - In Situ/Laboratory Instruments > Pressure/Height Meters > PRESSURE SENSORS ASFA Thesaurus - pressure sensors http://www4.fao.org/asfa/asfa.htm pyranometer pyranometer Instrument that measure solar radiation. rain gauge rain gauge A device to measure the amount of liquid precipitation The definition of liquid precipitation is any form of water falling from the sky as rain. Rain gauge measures the amount of liquid precipitation. temperature sensor temperature sensor A sensor used to measure temperature. thermistor thermistor electronic temperature sensor thermally sensitive resistor thermosalinograph thermosalinograph automated sea surface temperature and salinity instrument, usually attached to the hull of a ship Thermosalinograph is an automated Sea Surface Temperature and Salinity measurement system making measurement on board a ship using a water intake. [https://www.aoml.noaa.gov/phod/tsg/about.php 2021-01-29] RV Investigator ICES request for the vessel Investigator from AUSTRALIA(AU). Name : Investigator Country(s) : AUSTRALIA(AU) (ISO Country Code) Platform Class : 31 Research vessel Call Sign : VLMJ MMSI: 503791000 IMO : 9616888 Pennant : Australia Title : RV Commissioned Date : 2014-09-09 Current Length : 94 Built : 2014-08 Information Sources: - http://mnf.csiro.au/Vessel/Investigator-2014/Specifications.aspx Confirmed by NOAA on 2015-07-14.