WIND DIRECTION and WIND SPEED underway - surface data collected in the North Pacific Ocean on the NEW HORIZON cruises NH0005 and NH0007 as part of the NEP project from 2000-05-30 to 2000-08-12 (NODC Accession 0113337)

NODC Accession 0113337 includes underway - surface and meteorological data collected aboard the NEW HORIZON during cruises NH0005 and NH0007 in the North Pacific Ocean from 2000-05-30 to 2000-08-12. These data include WIND DIRECTION and WIND SPEED. The instruments used to collect these data include visual observation. These data were collected by Cynthia Tynan of Northwest Fisheries Science Center - Seattle and David G. Ainley of H.T. Harvey & Associates as part of NEP. The Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO) submitted these data to NODC on 2013-09-24.

The following is the text of the abstract provided by BCO-DMO:

GLOBEC NEP Northern California Current Bird Metadata
R/V New Horizon cruises NH0005 and 0007
These data provide background environmental data in support of the bird data (http://globec.whoi.edu/jg/serv/globec/nep/birds.html0%7Bdir=globec.whoi.edu/jg/dir/globec/nep/,info=globec.whoi.edu/jg/info/globec/nep/birds%7D).
Caution: Wind speed and direction may not be corrected for ship motion.
Any questions about the data, please contact the PIs:
David G. Ainley: [e-mail] (mailto:[e-mail])
Cyndy Tynan: [e-mail] (mailto:[e-mail])
Updated Sept 13, 2005; gfh