COMPS Mooring 3: West Florida South 50 meter isobath		 USF

Station IDC13 Latitude26° 03.82' N
Station TypeOffshore Buoy Longitude 83° 04.41' W
Responsible AgencyUSF

Site Notes Deployed 01Sep99. Location: 26° 03.403' N, 83° 04.691' W (26.056° N, 83.078° W). ADCP (currents) and MCAT (Temperature and Salinity) sensors were added to the buoy on 06/04/2003.
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Latest Observations
Data is updated hourly with four measurements made during past hour.
Time reported is UTC (Coordinated Universal Time): subtract 5 hours for EST, subtract 4 hours for EDT.
Provisional data - not quality-controlled - use at your own risk - see disclaimer.

Meteorological Data
Date 05-09-08 05-09-08 05-09-08 05-09-08
Time (Z) 12:59:50 12:44:50 12:29:50 12:14:50
Windspeed: 1.1 ms-1 2.14 knots 1.1 ms-1 1.3 ms-1 1.5 ms-1
Wind direction: 189 ° True 189 ° True 189 ° True 197 ° True 193 ° True
Buoy compass direction: 156 ° True 156 ° True 159 ° True 212° True 175° True
Barometric pressure: 1014.1 mbar 29.95 in Hg 1014.1 mbar 1014.0 mbar 1013.9 mbar
Air Temperature: 25.40 °C 77.72 °F 25.50 °C 25.50 °C 25.30 °C
Sea Surface Temperature: -99.99 °C -99.99 °F -99.99 °C -99.99 °C -99.99 °C
Relative Humidity: 91 % 91 % 90 % 90 % 91 %


ADCP Data
Date 05-07-08 Depth Depth Depth
Time 12:00:00 4 m 22 m 40 m
Current Speed 5.5 cms-1 0.11 knots 5.9 cms-1 0.11 knots 6.0 cms-1 0.12 knots
Current Direction 260 ° True 294 ° True 14 ° True

ADCP Current and Direction Data observed at other depths

Temperature and Salinity Data
Date 05-07-08 Depth Depth
Time 23:00:00 10 m 20 m
Temperature 0.00 °C 32.00 °F -99.00 °C -146.20 °F
Salinity -99.99 PSU -99.99 PSU
Date 05-07-08 Depth Depth
Time 21:30:00 10 m 20 m
Temperature 24.53 °C 76.15 °F -99.00 °C -146.20 °F
Salinity 38.99 PSU 0.00 PSU



Bridle Temperature and Salinity Data
Date 05-07-08 05-07-08
Time 23:00:00 21:30:00
Temperature 24.99 °C 76.98 °F 24.98 °C 76.96 °F
Salinity 36.63 PSU 36.67 PSU


Diagonostic Sensor Data
Date 05-07-08 05-07-08
Time 23:00:00 21:30:00
Internal Can Temperature 29.33 °C 84.79 °F 28.84 °C 83.91 °F
Battery Current Drawn 0.117 0.117
Unloaded Battery Voltage 14.013 13.602


Past 24-hours Observations
Meteorological Data
Table: metric, imperial
Plots
Oceanographic Data
Table: Currents, Temperature and Salinity
Plots: Currents, Temperature and Salinity
Diagonostic Sensor Data
Table: Sensor Data

Past 5-days Observations
Meteorological Data
Table: metric, imperial
Plots
Oceanographic Data
Table: Currents, Temperature and Salinity
Plots:Currents,Temperature and Salinity
Diagonostic Sensor Data
Table: Sensor Data
NOTE: Missing values denoted by -99 and -99.9