The general nature of the research flights was to map sea surface
temperature and overwater wind velocity in the vicinity of Monterey Bay
on several individual days in August 2000. These data support the Naval
Postgraduate School's ongoing efforts to monitor and model the upwelling
circulation and accompanying ecosystem response in and around Monterey
Bay. Most important, these flights were designed to coincide with a
major oceanographic field campaign taking place during August 2000 the
central component of which is MBARI's MOOS Upper-Water-Column Science
Experiment (MUSE).
Several instruments were used to acquire the data. A GPS was used to
determine latitude, longitude, pitch, roll, altitude, and velocity over
the ground. A downward looking radiometer, KT19, was used to measure
sea surface temperature. An air speed sensor, air temperature sensor,
and dew point temperature were mounted on the wing of the aircraft.