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Surface flux buoy

KEO is a modified TAO buoy equipped with sensors to monitor air-sea heat, CO2 flux, T and S profiles, and more in the extreme conditions of the Kuroshio Extension. Join the research tomorrow!

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Surface flux buoy

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  1. (UH, URI, WHOI, PMEL) Funded by: NSF, NOAA Surface flux buoy KESS Timeline NSF Tomorrow!

  2. KEO (Kuroshio Extension Observatory) Dr. Meghan Cronin, Mr. Chris Meinig, Dr. Christopher Sabine NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory Version 1 is a TAO buoy, modified for the extreme conditions of Kuroshio Extension, with special sensors to monitor... • Air-sea heat, moisture, and momentum fluxes • Air-sea CO2 flux (beginning June 2005) • surface and subsurface T and S • engineering quantities (load cell) • ?

  3. For tropics ... For Kuroshio Extension (145E, 32.3N) ... • decked over toroid • slack-line scope 1.4:1 • heavy anchor • sonic anemometer

  4. Cold dry air blowing over warm KE causes large sensible and latent heat loss. • What is Q? • How does heat flux affect SST? Mode water formation? Size of recirculation gyre? • Do SST (KE) variations affect convection? Winds? Storm track?

  5. The largest sink of carbon in the North Pacific is in the Kuroshio Extension

  6. Asian dust storms (e.g. April 1998) ...are rich in iron and other micro-nutrients. How do dust clouds affect the ocean biological pump and carbon cycle?

  7. KEO will be part of the global network of time series reference sites.

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