Surface Currents in the Mona Passage

Posted on Mon, 11/23/2009

In collaboration with the “National Center for Secure & Resilient Maritime Commerce – CSR”, we have emplaced CODAR® HF Radio installations along the Mona Passage at Club Deportivo del Oeste in Joyuda and The PR Police FURA station at Añasco. Here we display initial results in an animation of hourly current patterns on October 21 2009. We expect to soon have operational displays of hourly surface current patterns available to our stakeholders through this page.

The following video shows a preview of the currents product that we will be soon be featuring (full screen view recomended).

Codar Surface Currents Product

 

 

Codar site at Añasco Codar site at Club Deportivo del Oeste
Codar Site at FURA, Añasco Codar Site at Club Deportivo del Oeste

 

Buoy Failures Reported

The following instrument failures are reported for CarICOOS Data Buoy A:

 

July 2009 – The temperature sensor at 17 m was found to have very poor resolution. Data from this sensor was taken off line and reported as “sensor failure”

 

October 2009 – The SBE37 SM unit (a device for measuring temperature and salinity) at 1 m nominal depth has failed. Field tests indicate either an instrument or cable failure. New SBE37SM units are on order and the old unit will be swapped out as soon as practicable. Salinity data at 1m depth will be temporarily unavailable.

 

October 2009 – The NORTEK AWAC (Acoustic Wave and Current Meter) emplaced on the sea bottom adjacent to the buoy has failed. Diagnostics indicate battery depletion. The unit was recovered on October 29 for battery replacement. Wave and current data from this instrument will be temporarily unavailable. Current data at 2 m, gathered with an acoustic current meter (ACM) continues to be available.

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What is CarICOOS

CarICOOS is the observing arm of the Caribbean Regional Association for Integrated Coastal Ocean Observing (CaRA) http://cara.uprm.edu/. This effort, funded by the NOAA IOOS office http://ioos.noaa.gov/, is one of eleven coastal observing systems and regional associations which along with federal agencies constitute the national coastal component of the US Integrated Ocean Observing System. For more information on the regional associations, please visit http://usnfra.org/.

This web page brings together coastal ocean data and forecasts from a variety of sources including satellites, ocean instruments and numerical models to give the user an integrated view of past, present and forecasted ocean conditions in the US Caribbean region. Data are provided online by a number of organizations including NOAA, NASA, ONR Universities and others to whom credit is given.

Data and graphics, other than NOAA National Weather Service products, are presented as experimental products. CaRA assumes no responsibility for the validity of the data for planning or executing marine activities. For official information and forecasts on marine weather you should consult with the National Weather Service at http://www.nws.noaa.gov/ and its San Juan office at http://www.srh.noaa.gov/sju/




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