2017 Data (Information)

LDEO Whitecapping and Wave Data during SO GasEx, Feb-Apr 2008

Zappa, Christopher J.; Brumer, Sophia Eleonora

Measurements of whitecapping and sea state statistics from wave data (WaMoS with overlap from WW3); meteorological/ocean state variables. Location: Southwest Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean (nominally at 50°S, 40°W, near South Georgia Island). Duration: February 2008 - April 2008. Data are provided in one file containing each variable, with clear headings. Sampling interval is hourly averaged for all instruments.

SO GasEx website is https://www.bco-dmo.org/project/2064. For additional information, see: Brumer, S. E., C. J. Zappa, I. M. Brooks, H. Tamura, S. M. Brown, B. W. Blomquist, C. W. Fairall, and A. Cifuentes-Lorenzen (2017), Whitecap coverage dependence on wind and wave statistics as observed during SO GasEx and HiWinGS, Journal of Physical Oceanography, 47(9), 2211-2235, doi:10.1175/jpo-d-17-0005.1.