Large Lakes Observatory

University of Minnesota, Duluth

Duluth, MN 55812

jaustin@d.umn.edu

Very little moored data (data collected with instruments in place over a long period of time) has been collected in Lake Superior, save the NOAA NDBC buoys which have been in place, seasonally, since about 1980. Starting in Summer 2008, with support from the Great Lakes Observing System (GLOS), the Legislative-Citizen Commision on Minnesota Resources, and UMD's Office of the Vice President of Research, we will be placing multiple moorings around Lake Superior. One of these moorings, near Duluth, will report data from the top 30m of the water column in real time, along with a variety of meteorological parameters. This buoy is in about 50m of water, about 1.5 km offshore, just East of the Duluth Water Intake. The buoy was deployed at ~12:30 CDT on 16 June 2008 from UMD's research vessel, the R/V Blue Heron.

in the plots below, vertical blue lines are local midnight, vertical red lines are local noon.

(this web page contains provisional data and can change without notice. The University of Minnesota assumes no legal liability for the data contained herein)

 

New: Click on the individual panels to see a description of the measurement and why it's interesting!

New: You can see how we deployed the buoy by clicking here! Or a Flickr set of photos of the deployment.

 

 

Current Conditions:

wind map

Thermistor string data:

therm 1

therm 2

 

Meteorological data:

air temphumidity

 

shortwavelongwave

 

wind speedwind dir

 

Engineering data:

batterypanel temp

 

status

 

buoy

 

llo

 

me

 

capn

 

string

 

josh

 

anchors

 

lines

 

crane

 

 

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