Oregon Coastal Ocean Observing System (OrCOOS) mooring deployed off
Newport on 20 July 2006 (44 o 38.4'N, 124 o 18.2'W, 45 fathoms)
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Project in a nutshell:
- A 5-year, NSF-sponsored* interdisciplinary research project
on cross-shelf transport processes in a wind-driven system. Part
of the national Coastal
Ocean Processes (CoOP) program.
- Field experiments off the Oregon coast together with coordinated
ocean circulation/ecosystem and atmospheric modeling.
- Started early 2000, major field work in summer 2001 and winter
2003.
- Participants were from
Oregon State University,
the University of North Carolina
(UNC) and the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO):
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