- KEO is an element of the Kuroshio Extension System Study (KESS), a 2-year process study to investigate interactions between the Kuroshio Extension and its recirculation gyre. KEO was initially deployed during the KESS mooring deployment cruise in June 2004 aboard R/V Thompson. Subsequent deployments have been staged during KESS mooring cruises from R/V Revelle (2005) and R/V Melville (2006). The KEO project office gratefully acknowledges the help and contributions made by chief scientists Steve Jayne and Nelson Hogg (both at WHOI); the Captains and crews of R/V Thompson, R/V Revelle and R/V Melville; the WHOI mooring shop; and the KESS science parties.
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- Beginning in January 2007, PMEL will become partners with Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC)'s Institute of Observational Research for Global Change (IORGC), Kuroshio Transport and Flux Group. JAMSTEC has already assisted the KEO project by the timely rescue of the KEO-2 mooring which broke free from its anchor in November 2005. The KEO rescue is greatly appreciated and is a tribute to the long history of collaboration between JAMSTEC and NOAA.
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Technicians from JAMSTEC recover a KEO mooring on R/V Kaiyo. Photo courtesy of JAMSTEC
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- The carbon group at PMEL has mounted sensors on the KEO buoy to provide high resolution time-series measurements of atmospheric boundary layer and surface ocean CO2 partial pressure (pCO2). These data are used to evaluate the temporal variability in air-sea
CO2 fluxes and to assist in examining the carbon cycle in this region.
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