HOT Physical Oceanography Meteorological data

Scientists working within the Hawaiian Ocean Time-series (HOT)
project, https://hahana.soest.hawaii.edu/hot/, have been
making repeated observations of the hydrography, chemistry and biology
at a station north of Hawaii since October 1988. The objective of this
research is to provide a comprehensive description of the ocean at a
site representative of the central North Pacific Ocean. Cruises are
made approximately once a month to Station ALOHA, the HOT deep-water
station (22 45'N, 158W) located about 100 km north of Oahu,
Hawaii. Measurements of the thermohaline structure, water column
chemistry, currents, primary production and particle sedimentation
rates are made over a 72-hour period on each cruise.

Meteorological observations are collected during HOT cruises by the
science personnel and stored in ASCII files. Two data formats
exist. Cruises 1 through 27 are written in the first
format that contains only numeric data (files met1_#.dat, where # is
the cruise number). Starting with cruise 28, the data exist in the
original format and in the second format that contains some character
fields (e.g. Type of cloud) in addition to the numerical data (files
met2_#.dat).

The continuous flow of these data depends on funding, and that depends
in part on the credits that we get from the data users. If
you use these data in your project, please contact Dr. Roger Lukas to
avoid possible duplication of efforts. Please consider the
benefits of possible scientific collaborations in the analysis of
these data. If you use our data in your project, we would appreciate your
acknowledgement of the HOT project.The following NSF grant number
should be cited in publications: OCE-9303094. A preprint and reprint
of the publications utilizing HOT data would be appreciated.