>X-Sender: bob@altair.whoi.edu >Mime-Version: 1.0 >Date: Fri, 28 Mar 1997 14:23:42 -0500 >To: knox@sio.ucsd.edu (Bob Knox) >From: rweller@whoi.edu (rweller) >Subject: cruise letter > >Bob : Here is cruise letter, besides this we have a cellular phone rented >in Callao as there are few phones near our dock: 011 511 956 5922. > > > > >R. Weller > >3/24/97 > >Pan American Climate Study - Mooring Cruise 1 (PACS-1) > > This document provides an overview of the science and work to be >done on this cruise, information on how to contact the ship and members of >the science party, and travel and lodging information for members of the >science party in Lima, Peru and San Diego, California. > The purpose of this cruise is to deploy three surface moorings in >the eastern, equatorial Pacific Ocean. The ship, R/V Roger Revelle, of the >Scripps Institution of Oceanography, will enter Callao, Peru, the port city >located adjacent to Lima on April 6, 1997 to unload the previous science >party and to load the people and equipment for the PACS-1 mooring cruise. >On April 9, Revelle will sail, as shown below in the map, from (no map attached) >Callao toward the site of the first mooring at 3¡S, 125¡W. After setting >that mooring, the ship will steam north along 125¡W to the equator, and >then turn west to deploy the USF mooring at 129¡W on the equator. Revelle >will then return eastward along the equator to reach 125¡W. At 125¡ W, the >ship will proceed north to deploy the second WHOI surface mooring near 9¡N, >125¡W. Following the work along 125¡W, the ship will return home to San >Diego, arriving on May 5, 1997. > In addition to the actual deployments of the three moorings the >following work will be done: testing acoustic releases lowered on >hydrowire, bottom surveys of each mooring site, acoustic surveys of the >anchor positions of each mooring, a deep CTD at each mooring, and >intercomparison of shipboard and buoy meteorological sensors by standing >bow into the wind approximately 1/4 mile downwind of each buoy for a day. >In addition, a line of CTD stations will be made along 125¡W. The Seabeam >system will be run on the transit from Callao to the southern WHOI mooring >at the request of Peter Lonsdale of Scripps Inst. of Oceanography. > Summary of cruise schedule: > April 6, 1997 Revelle arrives in Callao, Peru > April 8, 1997 load > April 9, 1997 Revelle departs Callao, Peru > May 5, 1997 Revelle arrives in San Diego > May 6, 1997 offload >Science party > The science party will consist of: > Robert Weller WHOI >Chief Scientist > Bryan Way WHOI > Will Ostrom WHOI > Jon Ware WHOI > Rick Cole USF > Jyotika Virmani USF > Jeff Donovan USF > Robert Helber USF > Kamran Sahami U. Colorado > Johannes Loschnigg U. Colorado > Benjamin Webster NCAR > Roger Archibald journalist > Stephanie Ocko journalist > Jorge Antonio PAEZ Fossa Peruvian observer > Eddy William ROJAS Gonzales Peruvian observer > Luis Manuel BELTRAN Balarezo Peruvian observer > > In addition, Rick Trask of WHOI will travel to Lima and work in >Callao coordinating WHOI work there. > >Travel/Lodging in port > > Trask, Ware, Ocko, and Archibald will fly to Lima on March 25. >Weller, Way, and Ostrom will fly on March 29. Sahami, Loschnigg, and >Webster are expected to begin work in port on April 5 and have other travel >plans prior to that. Cole, Helber, Sahami, and Virmani will arrive between >March 29 and April 1. > > The science party, with the exception of those from Lima, will stay >in the residential Miraflores section of Lima at: > > Grand Hotel Miraflores phone: 011 511 241 4647 > 28 de Julio 151 fax: 011 511 446 5518 > Miraflores > Lima 18 PERU > > After the ship reaches San Diego, most of the science party will >stay nearby at: > Best Western Island Palms Hotel and Marina >phone: 619 222-0561 > 2051 Shelter Island Drive >fax: 619 222-9760 > San Diego, CA 92106-3194 > >Communication > > There will be e-mail contact to/from Revelle. Once onboard, the >computer tech will set up members of the science party with an account. >Messages are stored and sent once per day. Costs are listed as 2 cents >per hundred characters or about $1 per page, but experience indicates costs >end up at about $3 per message. Each member of the science party will be >billed for their costs. > Revelle's Inmarsat number is 011-872-1541644 for voice and >011-872-81-1541644 for fax. If the Pacific area code (872) doesn't work, >try the Atlantic area code (874). > A general point of contact at Scripps would be the ship operations >office at Scripp's Nimitz Marine Facility, phone: (619) 534-1643, 297 >Rosecrans Street, San Diego, CA 92106-3505. > > > >__________________________________________________________________ >Dr. Robert A. Weller phone: 508 289-2508 >Clark 204a MS 29 fax: 508 457-2181 >Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution e-mail: rweller@whoi.edu >Woods Hole, MA 02543-1541 > ********************************************************************* As part of the Pan American Climate Study (PACS), funded by the NOAA Office of Climate and Global Change, field studies of the links between the eastern tropical Pacific ocean and climate over the Americas will begin in 1997. This cruise will initiate one element of that PACS field work by deploying moorings along 125 deg W. Dr. Robert Weller of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) will be Chief Scientist, and two WHOI surface moorings, a joint effort between Weller and Dr. Steve Anderson of WHOI, will be deployed as well as one from Dr. Robert Weisberg of South Florida University. The moorings will carry complete meteorological instrumentation and oceanographic instruments to measure upper ocean velocity, temperature, and salinity. One mooring will be deployed south of the equator along 125 deg W to collect data in the 'tongue' of cold water found there. The second mooring will be deployed at the equator, and the third mooring north of the equator in the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ). This will allow the air-sea interaction and upper ocean processes that control the sea surface temperature of the eastern tropical Pacific to be studied in three distinct regimes. The cruise will depart from Callao, Peru, pick up the 125 deg W longitude line, stem north along the line to deploy the moorings, and then return to San Diego.