186 research outputs found
A compact coastal ocean observing system for Kernel Blitz 2001
In this report we describe a compact, easily deployed, moored system for oceanographic and meteorological observations in the
coastal ocean. The system consists of a surface and subsurface mooring pair deployed adjacent to one another. Compared to a single
catenary surface mooring, this arrangement allows the entire water column to be instrumented. All of the instruments in the system
log high resolution time series data. Additionally, the mooring line instruments periodically report averaged data to the buoys via
inductive modems. On the subsurface mooring, this averaged data is sent to the surface buoy using an acoustic modem. Inductively
coupled mooring line instrumentation includes conductivity, temperature, and pressure sensors, acoustic current meters, and optical
backscattering and absorption sensors. In addition to mooring line instruments, the surface buoy collects averaged data from
meteorological sensors, including wind speed and direction, barometric pressure, relative humidity, air temperature, precipitation,
longwave and shortwave radiation, sea surface temperature and conductivity, and wave height and period. Data from both mooring
lines and from the surface meteorological sensors is telemetered to shore via line-of-sight radio and satellite. The entire system,
including buoys, moorings, instruments, launch and recovery gear, telemetry receive, and data processing facilities can be packed
into a single 20 foot shipping container. The system was successfully deployed to provide environmental monitoring for Kernel
Blitz 2001, a US Navy fleet exercise off southern California. Results from the deployment are presented.Funding was provided by the Office of Naval Research under Contract Number N000149910090
Stratus Ocean Reference Station (20ËšS, 85ËšW), mooring recovery and deployment cruise R/V Revelle cruise dana 03, November 10 - November 26, 2003
The Ocean Reference Station at 20°S, 85°W under the stratus clouds west of northern
Chile and Peru is being maintained to provide ongoing, climate-quality records of surface
meteorology, of air-sea fluxes of heat, freshwater, and momentum, and of upper ocean
temperature, salinity, and velocity variability. The Stratus Ocean Reference Station,
hereafter ORS Stratus, is supported by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administrations (NOAA) Climate Observation Program. It is recovered and redeployed
annually, with cruises that have come in October or November.
During the November 2003 cruise of Scripps Institution of Oceanography's R/V Roger
Revelle to the ORS Stratus site, the primary activities where the recovery of the WHOI
surface mooring that had been deployed in October 2002, the deployment of a new WHOI
surface mooring at that site, the in-situ calibration of the buoy meteorological sensors by
comparison with instrumentation put on board by Chris Fairall of the NOAA
Environmental Technology Laboratory (ETL), and observations of the stratus clouds and
lower atmosphere by NOAA ETL and Jason Tomlinson from Texas A&M.
The ORS Stratus buoys are equipped with two Improved Meteorological systems, which
provide surface wind speed and direction, air temperature, relative humidity, barometric
pressure, incoming shortwave radiation, incoming longwave radiation, precipitation rate,
and sea surface temperature. The IMET data are made available in near real time using
satellite telemetry. The mooring line carries instruments to measure ocean salinity,
temperature, and currents. On some deployments, additional instrumentation is attached to
the mooring to measure rainfall and bio-optical variability. The ETL instrumentation used
during the 2003 cruise included a cloud radar, radiosonde balloons, and sensors for mean
and turbulent surface meteorology.
In addition to this work, buoy work was done in support of the Ecuadorian Navy Institute
of Oceanography (INOCAR) and of the Chilean Navy Hydrographic and Oceanographic
Service (SHOA). The surface buoy, oceanographic instrumentation, and upper 500 m of
an INOCAR surface mooring at 2°S, 84°W that had been vandalized were recovered and
transferred to the Ecuadorian Navy vessel B. A. E. Calicuchima. A tsunami warning
mooring was installed at 75°W, 20°S for SHOA. SHOA personnel onboard were trained
during the cruise by staff from the NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory
(PMEL) and National Data Buoy Center (NDBC). The cruise hosted two teachers
participating in NOAA's Teacher at Sea Program, Deb Brice from San Marcos, California
and Viviana Zamorano from Arica, Chile.Funding was provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration uncer Contract Number NA17RJ1223
The Great Observatories All-Sky LIRG Survey: Comparison of Ultraviolet and Far-Infrared Properties
The Great Observatories All-sky LIRG Survey (GOALS) consists of a complete
sample of 202 Luminous Infrared Galaxies (LIRGs) selected from the IRAS Revised
Bright Galaxy Sample (RBGS). The galaxies span the full range of interaction
stages, from isolated galaxies to interacting pairs to late stage mergers. We
present a comparison of the UV and infrared properties of 135 galaxies in GOALS
observed by GALEX and Spitzer. For interacting galaxies with separations
greater than the resolution of GALEX and Spitzer (2-6"), we assess the UV and
IR properties of each galaxy individually. The contribution of the FUV to the
measured SFR ranges from 0.2% to 17.9%, with a median of 2.8% and a mean of 4.0
+/- 0.4%. The specific star formation rate of the GOALS sample is extremely
high, with a median value (3.9*10^{-10} yr^{-1}) that is comparable to the
highest specific star formation rates seen in the Spitzer Infrared Nearby
Galaxies Survey sample. We examine the position of each galaxy on the IR
excess-UV slope (IRX-beta) diagram as a function of galaxy properties,
including IR luminosity and interaction stage. The LIRGs on average have
greater IR excesses than would be expected based on their UV colors if they
obeyed the same relations as starbursts with L_IR < 10^{11}L_0 or normal
late-type galaxies. The ratio of L_IR to the value one would estimate from the
IRXg-beta relation published for lower luminosity starburst galaxies ranges
from 0.2 to 68, with a median value of 2.7. A minimum of 19% of the total IR
luminosity in the RBGS is produced in LIRGs and ULIRGs with red UV colors (beta
> 0). Among resolved interacting systems, 32% contain one galaxy which
dominates the IR emission while the companion dominates the UV emission. Only
21% of the resolved systems contain a single galaxy which dominates both
wavelengths.Comment: 37 pages, 10 figures, accepted for publication in Ap
WHOI Hawaii Ocean Timeseries Station (WHOTS) : WHOTS-3 mooring turnaround cruise report
The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) Hawaii Ocean Timeseries (HOT) Site (WHOTS), 100 km north of Oahu, Hawaii,
is intended to provide long-term, high-quality air-sea fluxes as a coordinated part of the HOT program and contribute to the goals of
observing heat, fresh water, and chemical fluxes at a site representative of the oligotrophic North Pacific Ocean. The approach is to
maintain a surface mooring outfitted for meteorological and oceanographic measurements at a site near 22.75N 158W by successive
mooring turnarounds. These observations will be used to investigate air-sea interaction processes related to climate variability.
The first WHOTS mooring (WHOTS-1) was deployed in August 2004. WHOTS-1 was recovered and WHOTS-2 deployed in July 2005.
This report documents recovery of the WHOTS-2 mooring and deployment of the third mooring (WHOTS-3) at the same site. Both
moorings used Surlyn foam buoys as the surface element and were outfitted with two Air-Sea Interaction Meteorology (ASIMET)
systems. Each system measures, records, and transmits via Argos satellite, the surface meteorological variables necessary to compute
air-sea fluxes of heat, moisture, and momentum. WHOTS-2 was equipped with one Iridium data transmitter, and WHOTS-3 had two
Iridium data transmitters. In cooperation with R. Lukas of the University of Hawaii, the upper 155 m of the morrings were outfitted with
oceanographic sensors for the measurement of temperature, conductivity, and velocity.
The WHOTS mooring turnaround was done on the Scripps Institution of Oceanography ship Revelle, Cruise AMAT-07, by the Upper
Ocean Processes Group of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and Roger Lukas’group at the University of Hawaii. The cruise took
place between 22 and 29 June 2006. Operations on site were initiated with an intercomparison of shipboard meteorological observations
with the WHOTS-2 buoy. Dr. Frank Bradley, CSIRO, Australia, assisted with these comparisons. This was followed by recovery of the
WHOTS-2 mooring on 24 June. A number of recovered instruments were calibrated by attaching them to the rosette frame of the CTD.
Shallow CTD profiles were taken every two hours for 12 hours on the 25th of June. A fish trap was deployed on June 25th by John Yeh, a
University of Hawaii graduate student. The WHOTS-3 mooring was deployed on 26 June at approximately 22°46'N, 157°54'W in 4703 m
of water. A ship-buoy intercomparison period and series of shallow CTDs followed along with a second deployment of the fishtrap.
A NOAA Teacher-At-Sea, Diana Griffiths, and a NOAA Hollings Scholar, Terry Smith, participated in the cruise. This report describes
the mooring operations, some of the pre-cruise buoy preparations and CTD casts taken during the cruise, the fish trap deployments, and
the experiences of the Teacher-at-Sea and Hollings Scholar.Funding was provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration under grant No. NA17RJ1223
for the Cooperative Institute for Climate and Ocean Research (CICOR)
Stratus Ocean Reference Station (20ËšS, 85ËšW), mooring recovery and deployment cruise, R/V Ron Brown cruise 04-11, December 5 - December 24, 2004
The Ocean Reference Station at 20° S, 85° W under the stratus clouds west of northern
Chile and Peru is being maintained to provide ongoing, climate-quality records of surface
meteorology, of air-sea fluxes of heat, freshwater, and momentum, and of upper ocean
temperature, salinity, and velocity variability. The Stratus Ocean Reference Station (ORS
Stratus) is supported by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA)
Climate Observation Program. It is recovered and redeployed annually, with cruises that
have come between October and December.
During the December 2004 cruise of NOAA's R/V Ronald H. Brown to the ORS Stratus
site, the primary activities where the recovery of the WHOI surface mooring that had been
deployed in November 2003, the deployment of a new WHOI surface mooring at that site,
the in-situ calibration of the buoy meteorological sensors by comparison with
instrumentation put on board by staff of the NOAA Environmental Technology Laboratory
(ETL), and observations of the stratus clouds and lower atmosphere by NOAA ETL and
Jason Tomlinson from Texas A&M.
The ORS Stratus buoys are equipped with two Improved Meteorological systems, which
provide surface wind speed and direction, air temperature, relative humidity, barometric
pressure, incoming shortwave radiation, incoming longwave radiation, precipitation rate,
and sea surface temperature. The IMET data are made available in near real time using
satellite telemetry. The mooring line carries instruments to measure ocean salinity,
temperature, and currents. The ETL instrumentation used during the 2004 cruise included
cloud radar, radiosonde balloons, and sensors for mean and turbulent surface meteorology.
The atmospheric observations also benefited from the C-Band radar mounted on the R/V
Ronald H. Brown.
In addition to this work, buoy work was done in support of the Chilean Navy
Hydrographic and Oceanographic Service (SHOA). A tsunami warning mooring was
reinstalled at 75°W, 20°S for SHOA, after the previous buoy installed last year failed.
SHOA personnel were onboard to direct the deployment and to gain experience. Four
students from the University of Concepcion collected hydrographic data and water
samples. One other Chilean student from the University of Chile was involved in the
atmospheric sampling program, with a particular focus on the near coast jet. Finally, the
cruise hosted a teacher participating in NOAA's Teacher at Sea Program, Mary Esther
Cook, who used her experience to develop lessons for her class back in Arkansas.Funding was provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration under Contract Number NA17RJ1225
The Great Observatories All-Sky LIRG Survey: Herschel Image Atlas and Aperture Photometry
Far-infrared (FIR) images and photometry are presented for 201 Luminous and
Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies [LIRGs: log, ULIRGs: log], in the Great
Observatories All-Sky LIRG Survey (GOALS) based on observations with the
Photodetector Array Camera and Spectrometer
(PACS) and the Spectral and Photometric Imaging Receiver (SPIRE) instruments.
The image atlas displays each GOALS target in the three PACS bands (70, 100,
and 160 m) and the three SPIRE bands (250, 350, and 500 m), optimized
to reveal structures at both high and low surface brightness levels, with
images scaled to simplify comparison of structures in the same physical areas
of kpc. Flux densities of companion galaxies in
merging systems are provided where possible, depending on their angular
separation and the spatial resolution in each passband, along with integrated
system fluxes (sum of components). This dataset constitutes the imaging and
photometric component of the GOALS Herschel OT1 observing program, and is
complementary to atlases presented for the Hubble Space Telescope (Evans et al.
2017, in prep.), Spitzer Space Telescope (Mazzarella et al. 2017, in prep.),
and Chandra X-ray Observatory (Iwasawa et al. 2011, 2017, in prep.).
Collectively these data will enable a wide range of detailed studies of AGN and
starburst activity within the most luminous infrared galaxies in the local
Universe.Comment: Accepted for publication in ApJS, 270 pages, 216 figures, 4 table
Stratus Ocean Reference Station (20˚S, 85˚W), mooring recovery and deployment cruise R/V Ronald H. Brown cruise 05-05, September 26, 2005–October 21, 2005
The Ocean Reference Station at 20°S, 85°W under the stratus clouds west of northern Chile is being maintained to provide
ongoing, climate-quality records of surface meteorology, of air-sea fluxes of heat, freshwater, and momentum, and of upper ocean
temperature, salinity, and velocity variability. The Stratus Ocean Reference Station (ORS Stratus) is supported by the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Climate Observation Program. It is recovered and redeployed annually, with
cruises that have come between October and December. During the October 2005 cruise of NOAA’s R/V Ronald H. Brown to the
ORS Stratus site, the primary activities were recovery of the WHOI surface mooring that had been deployed in December 2004,
deployment of a new WHOI surface mooring at that site, in-situ calibration of the buoy meteorological sensors by comparison
with instrumentation put on board by staff of the NOAA Environmental Technology Laboratory (ETL), and observations of the
stratus clouds and lower atmosphere by NOAA ETL. The ORS Stratus buoys are equipped with two Improved Meteorological
(IMET) systems, which provide surface wind speed and direction, air temperature, relative humidity, barometric pressure,
incoming shortwave radiation, incoming longwave radiation, precipitation rate, and sea surface temperature. The IMET data are
made available in near real time using satellite telemetry. The mooring line carries instruments to measure ocean salinity,
temperature, and currents. The ETL instrumentation used during the 2005 cruise included cloud radar, radiosonde ballons, and
sensors for mean and turbulent surface meteorology. In addition, two technicians from the University of Concepcion collected
water samples for chemical analysis. Finally, the cruise hosted a teacher participating in NOAA’s Teacher at Sea Program.Funding was provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
under Grant No. NA17RJ1223 and the Cooperative Institute for Climate and Ocean Research (CICOR)
Differential uranyl(v) oxo-group bonding between the uranium and metal cations from groups 1, 2, 4, and 12; a high energy resolution X-ray absorption, computational, and synthetic study
The uranyl(VI) ‘Pacman’ complex [(UO₂)(py)(H₂L)] A (L = polypyrrolic Schiff-base macrocycle) is reduced by Cp₂Ti(η²-Me₃SiC[triple bond, length as m-dash]CSiMe₃) and [Cp₂TiCl]₂ to oxo-titanated uranyl(V) complexes [(py)(Cp₂OUO)(py)(H₂L)] 1 and [(ClCp₂OUO)(py)(H₂L)] 2. Combination of and synthons with A yields the first –uranyl(V) complex, [(ClCp₂ZrOUO)(py)(H₂L)] 3. Similarly, combinations of and synthons (Ae = alkaline earth) afford the mono-oxo metalated uranyl(V) complexes [(py)₂(ClMgOUO)(py)(H₂L)] 4, [(py)₂(thf)₂(ICaOUO)(py) (H₂L)] 5; the zinc complexes [(py)₂(XZnOUO)(py)(H₂L)] (X = Cl 6, I 7) are formed in a similar manner. In contrast, the direct reactions of Rb or Cs metal with A generate the first mono-rubidiated and mono-caesiated uranyl(V) complexes; monomeric [(py)₃(RbOUO)(py)(H₂L)] 8 and hexameric [(MOUO)(py)(H₂L)]₆ (M = Rb 8b or Cs 9). In these uranyl(V) complexes, the pyrrole N–H atoms show strengthened hydrogen-bonding interactions with the endo-oxos, classified computationally as moderate-strength hydrogen bonds. Computational DFT MO (density functional theory molecular orbital) and EDA (energy decomposition analysis), uranium M₄ edge HR-XANES (High Energy Resolution X-ray Absorption Near Edge Structure) and 3d4f RIXS (Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering) have been used (the latter two for the first time for uranyl(V) in 7 (ZnI)) to compare the covalent character in the –O and O–M bonds and show the 5f orbitals in uranyl(VI) complex A are unexpectedly more delocalised than in the uranyl(V) 7 (ZnI) complex. The –Zn bonds have a larger covalent contribution compared to the Mg–/Ca– bonds, and more covalency is found in the U– bond in 7 (ZnI), in agreement with the calculations
WHOI Hawaii Ocean Timeseries Station (WHOTS) : WHOTS-5 2008 mooring turnaround cruise report
The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) Hawaii Ocean Timeseries (HOT)
Site (WHOTS), 100 km north of Oahu, Hawaii, is intended to provide long-term, high-quality
air-sea fluxes as a part of the NOAA Climate Observation Program. The WHOTS mooring also
serves as a coordinated part of the HOT program, contributing to the goals of observing heat,
fresh water and chemical fluxes at a site representative of the oligotrophic North Pacific Ocean.
The approach is to maintain a surface mooring outfitted for meteorological and oceanographic
measurements at a site near 22.75°N, 158°W by successive mooring turnarounds. These
observations will be used to investigate air–sea interaction processes related to climate
variability.
The first four WHOTS moorings (WHOTS-1 through 4) were deployed in August 2004,
July 2005, June 2006, and June 2007, respectively. This report documents recovery of the
WHOTS-4 mooring and deployment of the fifth mooring (WHOTS-5). Both moorings used
Surlyn foam buoys as the surface element and were outfitted with two Air–Sea Interaction
Meteorology (ASIMET) systems. Each ASIMET system measures, records, and transmits via
Argos satellite the surface meteorological variables necessary to compute air–sea fluxes of heat,
moisture and momentum. The upper 155 m of the moorings were outfitted with oceanographic
sensors for the measurement of temperature, conductivity and velocity in a cooperative effort
with R. Lukas of the University of Hawaii. A pCO2 system was installed on the WHOTS-5 buoy
in a cooperative effort with Chris Sabine at the Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory.
The WHOTS mooring turnaround was done on the University of Hawaii research vessel
Kilo Moana, Cruise KM-08-08, by the Upper Ocean Processes Group of the Woods Hole
Oceanographic Institution. The cruise took place between 3 and 11 June 2008. Operations began
with deployment of the WHOTS-5 mooring on 5 June at approximately 22°46.1'N, 157°54.1'W
in 4702 m of water. This was followed by meteorological intercomparisons and CTDs at the
WHOTS-4 site. A period of calmer weather was taken advantage of to recover WHOTS-4 on 6
June 2008. The Kilo Moana then returned to the WHOTS-5 mooring for CTD operations and
meteorological intercomparisons. This report describes these cruise operations, as well as some
of the in-port operations and pre-cruise buoy preparations.Funding was provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
under Grant No. NA17RJ1223 for the Cooperative Institute for Climate and Ocean Research (CICOR)
Tracing PAHs and Warm Dust Emission in the Seyfert Galaxy NGC 1068
We present a study of the nearby Seyfert galaxy NGC 1068 using mid- and far-
infrared data acquired with the IRAC, IRS, and MIPS instruments aboard the
Spitzer Space Telescope. The images show extensive 8 um and 24 um emission
coinciding with star formation in the inner spiral approximately 15" (1 kpc)
from the nucleus, and a bright complex of star formation 47" (3 kpc) SW of the
nucleus. The brightest 8 um PAH emission regions coincide remarkably well with
knots observed in an Halpha image. Strong PAH features at 6.2, 7.7, 8.6, and
11.3 um are detected in IRS spectra measured at numerous locations inside,
within, and outside the inner spiral. The IRAC colors and IRS spectra of these
regions rule out dust heated by the AGN as the primary emission source; the
SEDs are dominated by starlight and PAH emission. The equivalent widths and
flux ratios of the PAH features in the inner spiral are generally consistent
with conditions in a typical spiral galaxy ISM. Interior to the inner spiral,
the influence of the AGN on the ISM is evident via PAH flux ratios indicative
of a higher ionization parameter and a significantly smaller mean equivalent
width than observed in the inner spiral. The brightest 8 and 24 um emission
peaks in the disk of the galaxy, even at distances beyond the inner spiral, are
located within the ionization cones traced by [O III]/Hbeta, and they are also
remarkably well aligned with the axis of the radio jets. Although it is
possible that radiation from the AGN may directly enhance PAH excitation or
trigger the formation of OB stars that subsequently excite PAH emission at
these locations in the inner spiral, the orientation of collimated radiation
from the AGN and star formation knots in the inner spiral could be
coincidental. (abridged)Comment: 20 pages, 11 figures; AJ, accepted; full resolution version available
at http://spider.ipac.caltech.edu/staff/jhhowell/astro/howelln1068.pd
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