Technical Information

OceanSITES physical oceanographic and meteorological data collected within TAO/TRITON, PIRATA and RAMA comes from ATLAS and TRITON moorings.  These two mooring systems are functionally equivalent in terms of sensors, sample rates, and data quality. Detailed specifications for each mooring system are available from the links above.  The data have been merged into a single data base and served for all three oceans from the TAO/TRITON display and delivery page.

Fluxes of heat, moisture, and momentum (i.e. wind stress) across the air-sea interface are calculated from these buoy data using standard algorithms and made available via the PMEL OceanSITES data & products page.

Detailed specifications for biogeochemical measurements made within the tropical moored buoy arrays are available from PMEL's CO₂ Program, the CO2 Program of LOCEAN/University of Paris VI, and MBARI's Biological Oceanography Group.