The KNORR (NOAA Ship)


General Information
Datasets in the FASTEX Central Archive
Information on available data
Data selection page

General Information

Measurements for the FASTEX experiment between 6th January and 25th January. For the Labrador sea experiment after.
  • Description
  • Name : R/V Knorr
  • Location:
  • during FASTEX: 45N -35W
  • during LABSEA experiment: Labrador Sea
  • Instruments
  • VAISALA radiosounding with OMEGA wind: 4 soundings a day, each 90 minutes during 18 hours IOP
  • Surface meteorological measurements
  • NCAR ISS
  • 3D sonic anemometers and fast hygrometers.
  • More precisions in the KNORR instrumentation page


    • Data sets in the FASTEX Central Archive:

  • High resolution radiosonde data
  • Low resolution radiosonde data
  • Ships Surface in-situ data collected from the GTS.
  • Basic Meteorological data from the ATHENA ship system and Sea Surface Temperature
  • 15-minutes average data
  • 1-hour average data
  • Wind profilers data
  • Retrieved TEMP from hi. res radiosounding data
  • Datasets planned:
  • Ships surface fluxes

    • Information on available data in the FASTEX Central Archive
  • number of data for each day
    • Updated: 2 Sept 1999
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