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24 July 2008 R/V Wecoma cruise - Plume Feature Tracking
Submitted by Byron Crump on July 27, 2008 - 1:54pm
Yesterday evening we received waypoints/waytimes from Grant Law for today Feature Tracking Exercise. We did one of these on the 16th during the Spring Tide. Now that it is Neap Tide we are doing it again. We were not able to get to the first way-point in time after pulling the drifter at 08:30, so we started our series a little late. Grant updated the surface salinity forecast for the locations and times we did CTD casts, and the numbers improved.
| PLUME STATION |
FORECAST TIME |
FORECAST SALINITY |
SAMPLED TIME |
SAMPLED SALINITY |
| P-25 | 10:15 | 32.9 | 10:18 | 31 |
| P-26 | 11:30 | 25.3 | 11:25 | 29.7 |
| P-27 | 12:15 | 13.9 | 12:14 | 8.6 |
| P-28 | 13:00 | 18.3 | 13:01 | 13.6 |
| P-29 | 14:00 | 27.6 | 14:06 | 19.1 |
| P-30 | 15:00 | 28.2 | 15:04 | 29.5 |
| P-31 | 16:00 | 31.1 | 15:51 | 28.4 |
| P-32 | 17:00 | 31.9 | 16:58 | 29.4 |
| P-33 | 18:00 | 30.6 | 17:48 | 30.8 |
| P-34 | 19:00 | 30.2 | 18:46 | 31.6 |
Neap Tide Feature Tracking way points/times, daytime, 24 July 2008
