Sentences with phrase «tao buoy»

(TAO Buoy Array)

The main point I was trying to suggest is for a limited measure of N / S 8 Deg., covered by the NOAA Triton / TAO buoy data sets, the visual indication since 1998 does not appear to support large scale warming in either heat content or isotherms.

Not exact matches

There are two types of buoys used in the TAO array.

The Tropical Atmosphere Ocean (TAO) array consists of approximately 70 buoys deployed in a grid across the equatorial region of the Pacific Ocean.

For instance if you look here: http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/tao/jsdisplay/ the TAO / Triton data sets of 10 buoys (You choose) based on monthly data and the Isotherm data and you will notice both heating and cooling with a significant heating event appearing centered around the 1998 time frame and a seemingly normal variation there after.

I discussed additional information regarding observable effects of the hypothesis here, and have since expanded that analysis of the TAO / TRITON buoys and plan to discuss it here.

The set of in situ data was compiled from several different archives and includes temperature profiles from XBTs, CTDs, profiling floats, moored buoys (primarily from the TAO array), and autonomous pinniped bathyther - mographs.

The NOAA TAO Project has had buoys collecting atmospheric, sea surface and subsurface data in the tropical Pacific since the late 1970s / early 1980s.

Owen mentions intimate knowledge of the vessels... I was the Tech on two of the vessels 2006 - 2015... i was the one collecting equatorial SST via SBE21, SBE3, SBE38, SBE45 Thermosalinographs and an SBE9plus water sampler carousel CTD on the TAO el niño array runs as well as elsewhere and I deployed the most Argo floats of the fleet, and I knew the NDBC / SAIC buoy techs...