CARTHE - Surface-Coastal Oil Pathways Experiment (SCOPE): Meteorological data collected from the Surface Physics Experimental Catamaran (SPEC), December 2013

This data was collected during the CARTHE :Surfzone-Coastal Oil Pathways Experiment (SCOPE) conducted in December 2013 in the Northern Gulf of Mexico. The experiment focused on the exchanges between Destin Inlet and the nearby shelf waters. This dataset was collected from instruments deployed on the front of the University of Miami's RV Calliope (also known as the Surface Physics Experimental Catamaran (SPEC)). SPEC was a 25’ Glacier Bay catamaran which was configured with a bow mounted 2-m high meteorological mast equipped with a complete flux package. The vessel was also equipped with a hydrographic sensor package. It enabled relatively undistorted measurements of air-sea fluxes when moving into the wind along with the underlying water currents and bathymetry. The vessel sampled during short duration trips from its dock in Destin, FL over the period from December 3 to December 17. This vessel was also used for deploying and recovering various other sensors, such as Lagrangian drifters and a turbulence microstructure profiler.