SEOSAR and CTD Observations During a COARE Surveys Cruise, W9211C, 22 January to 22 February 1993 (NODC Accession 9400067)

An international Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Response Experiment (COARE) was conducted in the warm-pool region of the western equatorial Pacific Ocean over a four-month period from November 1992 through February 1993 (Webster and Lukas, 1992). Most of the oceanographic and meteorological observations were concentrated in the Intensive Flux Array (IFA) centered at 1 degree, 45'S, 156 degree East. As part of this experiment, R/V Wecoma conducted three survey cruises on the R/V Wecoma each cruise included measurements of the temperature, salinity and velocity distribution in the upper 300 m of the ocean, and continuous meteorological measurements of wind, air temperature, humidity, etc. Most of these measurements were along a butterfly pattern that was sampled repeatedly during the three COARE Surveys cruises, W9211A and WW9211B, and W9211C.