SIO Melville lab had another successful four hour flight today. We overflew a Sally Ride transect before doing the usual cross-shore low altitude and alongshore high altitude legs. Still plenty of wind and waves on site and mostly clear skies with a few developing clouds at the end of the flight. L to R: Point Sal conditions today, sediment plumes … Read More
SIO Airborne Flight (9/19/2017)
After cloudy conditions limited the previous two days of flights to the very North end of the experimental site, today the SIO Melville lab was greeted with clear conditions throughout the region. Total flight time was 8 hours over the course of two flights with a variety of altitudes and headings flown to best sample the high wind/wave conditions. L … Read More
Oceanus finishes BATing and is dockside in SF
Oceanus finished 24-hours BATing on the Oceano array bounding box. We can see both the large-scale wind-driven response and the NLIWs coming in (see plot below). The storm knocked some kelp free which we managed to catch on the BAT. No harm, no foul. We were happy to get the BAT back on board and head north. Here’s an … Read More
Pt Purisma radar now online
Our radar at Pt Purisma now has a real time site. Both sites can now be accessed from one link: http://research.engr.oregonstate.edu/haller/innershelf/osu-radar.php Hopefully this is of some use as work gets done further to the south.
Chasing vorticity off Oceano
The Inner Shelf armada is conducting synchronized along shelf lines off Oceano. Here’s a shot of R/Vs Kalipi and Sounder inshore of Oceanus. They were soon joined by Sally Ann shoreward of Sounder. On the offshore side was Sally Ride. Oceanus’ radar shows the 5 vessels all in a row headed north. The ADCP from Oceanus shows some nice upwelling, … Read More