SGER: Initiation of Planning for the Documentation of an IMET System for UNOLS Ships

Drs。Weller和Hosom要求为改进气象（IMET）传感器的初步文件开发提供资金。作为将于1992年开始实地试验的世界海洋环流试验的一部分所计划的许多研究工作都需要更精确的气象数据。尽管许多传感器在商业上是可用的，但它们的准确性和用于船舶和浮标的校准直到最近才得到测试。最初授权给PI的工作（OCE- 87-09614）量化了一些浮标和船舶传感器的性能特征，PI和制造商之间的合作导致了传感器的改进。适用于任何传感器的数据记录系统的开发也已完成并授权给商业制造商。虽然IMET传感器现已商业化，但如果没有适当的校准和安装，它们将无法在特定的WOCE标准下运行，这对每艘联卢行动船只来说都是独一无二的。正如提案中所述，“由于IMET的开发是在WHOI进行的，因此记录该系统并在几艘船上进行初始系统安装的专业知识目前只属于WHOI。”该提案要求提供资金，开始将卫生信息研究所发展的专门知识记录在案，以便联卢行动的所有业务人员都能获得这些信息。这些信息需要尽快为研究人员提供准确的气象数据。

Drs. Weller and Hosom request funding for initial development of documentation for Improved Meteorological (IMET) sensors. More accurate meteorological data is required for many of the research efforts planned as part of the World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE), which will begin field experiments in 1992. Although many sensors are available commercially, their accuracy and calibration for ships and buoys had not been tested until recently. Work completed in an initial grant to the PI's (OCE- 87-09614) quantified the performance characteristics of some of the buoy and ship sensors, and cooperation between the PI's and manufacturers resulted in improvements to the sensors. Development of a data logging system that is applicable to any sensor was also completed and licensed to a commercial manufacturer. Although the IMET sensors are now available commercially, they will not function at specified WOCE standards without proper calibration and installation, which will be unique for each UNOLS vessel. As stated in the proposal, "Since the development of IMET was carried out at WHOI, the expertise to document the system and carry out initial system installation on several ships currently resides only at WHOI." This proposal requests funds to begin the documentation of the expertise that has been developed at WHOI so that the information will be available for all UNOLS operators. This information in needed to provide accurate meteorological data to researchers as soon as possible.