Wind Measurements off Newport, Oregon
Click on the links below to see low-pass-filtered winds from
two locations:
(1) Newport CMAN
(shore station): 44.61 N, 124.07 W
good time coverage, but on land
(2) Newport/Stonewall
Bank Buoy: 44.62 N, 124.53 W
gaps in coverage, often missing (initiated by) strongest winds
Data were collected by NOAA's National Data Buoy Center.
Data have been filtered using the same 40-hr low-pass
filter used for OSU current data,
and plotted every 6 hrs.
Here are some plots of likelihood of strong northward
winds at each buoy as a function of time.
Unfiltered hourly data were used, and the percentage
of hourly values with northward winds exceeding a given threshold were
counted. Click on links below to see the plots.
Percentage occurence of strong
northward winds at Newport CMAN
Percentage occurence of strong
northward winds at Stonewall Bank Buoy (remember: some bias due to
missing data)
Kosro, 11/01/2002
Stratification: Fall vs. Winter
The water-column stratification at mid-shelf undergoes dramatic
changes between October-November (Fall) and January-February (Winter).
Here are data from my GLOBEC mooring, at 81m off Newport, showing the temperature
difference between the near-surface (2m) and the near-bottom (71m).
In water 81m deep, top-to-near-bottom mixing comes in late November during
these 2 years. It is possible that mixing happens earlier in shallower
water.
