because, on the NORPAX scale, the horizontal sampling 

 spanned little more than a point whereas the vertical sampling 

 was extensive. Platforms used and parameters monitored 

 included: 



1) U.S. Naval Oceanographic Office P3 aircraft 



airdrop expendable bathythermograph 



(AXBT) 

 sea surface temperature 

 surface waves 



air temperature and humidity 

 drogue tracking 



2) Spar buoy FLIP 



air-sea heat flux, water vapor, and momentum 

 mixed layer temperature-salinity-velocity 



3) RV Thomas Washington 



STD 



expendable bathythermograph (XBT) 



sea surface temperature 



radiosonde measurements 



drogue tracking 



4) Monster buoy ALPHA 



mixed layer temperature 



surface meteorological measurements 



surface waves 



5) six long-term, tracked, drafting buoys 



6) over-the-horizon radar 



wind velocity 

 surface currents 



7) NO A A/US Air Force satellites 



sea surface temperature 

 The following organizations have projects for NORPAX 

 studies : 



University of Alaska 



University of California at Los Angeles 



University of California at San Diego 



General Dynamics Corporation 



University of Hawaii 



Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of 



Technology 

 NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service, La JoUa 

 Oregon State University 

 Stanford Research Institute 

 Stanford University 

 Texas A&M University 

 US Naval Postgraduate School 

 US Naval Oceanographic Office 

 University of Washington 



NORPAX Data 



NODC Accession No.: 740397 T!!r 



Organization: National Marine Fisheries Service, La Jolla 

 Investigator: J. F. T. Saur 



Project title: XBT Sections From Ship of Opportunity, between 

 Honolulu and San Francisco or Los Angeles and between 

 Honolulu and Alaska 

 Data received by NOAA Environmental Data Service's 

 National Oceanographic Data Center: 



One magnetic tape containing 914 XBT records 

 from 33 cruises between April 7 and December 18, 

 1973. 



35° N 



Key and sampling interval: 



Spar buoy FLIP (1 hour, continuous) 

 LJ Monster buoy ALPHA (1 hour, continuous) 



Deployed at initial FLIP position. 



Ship (20 km, repeat pattern 5 times) 



Aircraft (40 km, repeat pattern 3 times) 



Figure 14. — POLE experiment, January and 

 February 1974. 



NORPAX Bibliography 



Ballis, D. J. Monthly Mean Bathythermograph Data from 

 Ocean Weather Station PAPA, Scripps Inst. Oceanogr., 

 Ref. Ser. 73-5, 101 pp., 1973. 



Ballis, D. J. Monthly Mean Bathythermograph Data from 

 Ocean Weather Station VICTOR, Scripps Inst. Oceanogr., 

 Ref. Ser., 73-6, 82 pp., 1973. 



Ballis, D. J., Monthly Mean Bathythermograph Data from 

 Ocean Weather Station NOVEMBER, Scripps Inst. 

 Oceanogr., Ref. Ser. 73-7, 121 pp., 1973. 



Bernstein, R. L. Exanlliiation of Time/Space Scales of Surface 

 and Subsurface Ocean Temperature Fluctuations, Paper 

 presented at American Geophysical Union Annual Meet- 

 ing, April 1973. 



Bernstein, R. L. Mesoscale Ocean Eddies in the North Pacific: 

 Westward Propagation, 5c/e/7ce 183(4120): 71-72, 1974. 



Born, R. M., A. E. Walker, J. Namias, and W. B. White. 

 Monthly Mean Sea Surface Temperature Departures Over 

 the North Pacific Ocean with Corresponding Subsurface 

 Temperature Departures at Ocean Weather Stations VIC- 

 TOR, PAPA, and NOVEMBER 1950-1970, Scripps Inst. 

 Oceanogr., Ref. Ser. 73-28, 1973. 



Haney, R. L. The Numerical Simulation of the Coupled North 

 Pacific Ocean-Atmosphere System, /. Phys. Oceanogr. in 

 press, 1974. 



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