Ocean Observing and Climate
Waves, Aerosols and Gas Exchange Study (WAGES)
Contact: Dr Margaret Yelland or Dr Ian Brooks
Plot of the cruise track from May 2010 until today
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The aim of this NERC-funded project is to make direct measurement of the turbulent air-sea fluxes of CO2, sea-spray aerosol, sensible and latent heat and momentum in order to improve the parameterisation of these fluxes in terms of mean meteorological and sea-state variables. We hope to obtain data in a wide range of conditions, particularly the poorly-understood high wind speed regime. In order to do this we have installed a range of instrumentation on the British Antarctic survery ship, the RRS James Clark Ross which will operate continuously for 3 years.
***** DATA FROM THE SHIP are received via an iridium satellite message once per day. Near real-time mean meteorological and wave data can be viewed here. *****
WAGES is a joint project with the University of Leeds and is a follow-on from the recent UK-SOLAS projects HiWASE (High Wind Air-Sea Exchanges), SEASAW and DOGEE.
Our instrumentation was installed on the ship in the summer of 2010 and will operate continuously until the summer of 2013.
To obtain high quality air-sea flux measurements from the ship the effects of flow distortion have to be taken into account. Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) modelling is being used to study the flow of air over the ship here
We are grateful to the ship's staff and members of BAS AME and IT departments for their help in setting our systems up on the ship and for looking after them while the ship is at sea.
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