Profiling performance for the NOPP / SWOT calval moorings has been ongoing and excellent at all moorings for 100 days! A total of ~18,000 round trips from the Wirewalkers have been collected from the 4 moorings. This equates to a 500 m upcast profile every 35 min at each mooring on average. There is a great deal of variability between the four moorings (each separated by ~30 km), even in the long-wavelength internal tide. Here is the Wirewalker profiler data from one of the moorings. It shows the awesome temporal … Read More
SWOT / NOPP moorings are in the water
SIO SWOT / NOPP moorings S1-S4 are in the water, telemetering, and functioning as designed! The weather held off this morning, allowing us to get a relatively early and efficient start. Although the weather deteriorated to some extent over the course of the day, we were able to safely deploy the final mooring less than 100 yards from the target. The SIO SWOT NOPP real-time data can be found here: https://mooring.ucsd.edu/swot2/ The Wirewalker profiler performance has been excellent at all moorings since deployment, averaging 500 m round trips every 30 … Read More