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- The Autonomous Temperature Line Acquisition System was initiated by PMEL's Engineering Development Division (EDD) in 1984. The standard ATLAS mooring had a design lifetime of one year, and the system proved to be robust and reliable. Over 500 Standard ATLAS moorings were deployed between 1984 and 2001. The final standard ATLAS was recovered in November 2001 and NextGeneration ATLAS moorings are now used exclusively in the TAO array. Standard ATLAS moorings measured surface winds, air temperature, relative humidity, sea surface temperature, and ten subsurface temperatures from a 500 m long thermistor cable. Daily-mean data were telemetered to shore in near real-time via NOAA's polar-oribiting satellites and Service Argos. A small subset of hourly values (2-3 per day) coinciding with satellite passes were also transmitted in real time. Hourly values of surface data were internally recorded and available after mooring recovery. More info at "http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/tao/proj_over/mooring.shtml"
[Source: NOAA]
Group: Platform_Details Entry_ID: ATLAS MOORINGS Group: Platform_Identification Platform_Category: In Situ Ocean-based Platforms Platform_Series_or_Entity: MOORINGS Short_Name: ATLAS MOORINGS Long_Name: Autonomous Temperature Line Acquisition System End_Group Group: Synonymous_Platform_Names Short_Name: Atlas Moorings End_Group Creation_Date: 2007-12-12 Online_Resource: http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/tao/proj_over/mooring.shtml Sample_Image: http://www.whoi.edu/cms/images/lstokey/2005/1/v39n2-rothstein3en_4592.jpg End_Group
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