Two shore side met stations are up and running. These are collocated with the OSU radar sites at Guadalupe and Pt Purisma. Parameters measured are wind speed, wind direction, air temp, air pressure, relative humidity, and shortwave radiation. We are working on adding long wave radiation at Gaudalupe. The data are recorded locally, and will be available at the end … Read More
Scripps Airborne Installation
Installation of the MASS system for the Melville SIO group was completed today (September 8) in Oxnard. The outfitted plane will be arriving at the Santa Maria Airport tomorrow afternoon in preparation for airborne flights beginning Sunday. We will be on the evening conference calls starting tomorrow to firm up flight plan details for flights on subsequent days.
Oceanus: Mooring deployments complete; first NLIWs!
We finished mooring deployments from R/V Oceanus when we installed MS100 at first light. After that, we transited to near Avila Beach and Jim Lerczak, Una Savic (OSU graduate student) and Matthew Ball (OSU undergraduate student) boarded the 29-foot OSU research vessel Kalipi. Taylor Eaton (Captain) and Jenny Thomas (OSU graduate student) are the rest of the OSU R/V Kalipi … Read More
Info about live radar feed
Just a little info about the live radar feed, the feed can be found on the ISDRI blog under ObservationalData/Realtime Data or at this link, some instructions are located at the blog RealtimeData as well. This feed can be accessed from your phone, if you download the single image you can even view it in Google Earth on your phone … Read More
Oceanus deploys moorings in the Vandenberg array
Another good day on the water for Oceanus, this time working south of Point Sal in the shadow of the Vandenberg launch towers. The marine layer burned off and we had a bluebird day view of Point Sal. We installed VB25N just offshore of Jim Thomson’s SWIFT buoy and Falk’s nearshore line. The array is really starting to shape up. … Read More