2008 GLOS Mooring deployment
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.
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