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

Weller博士和Hosom博士要求为改进的气象(IMET)传感器文件的初步开发提供资金。作为世界海洋环流实验(WOCE)的一部分计划的许多研究工作都需要更准确的气象数据，该实验将于1992年开始实地实验。虽然市面上有很多传感器，但它们对船舶和浮标的准确度和校准直到最近才得到测试。在对PI的初始拨款(OCE-87-09614)中完成的工作量化了一些浮标和船舶传感器的性能特征，PI与制造商之间的合作导致了传感器的改进。还完成了适用于任何传感器的数据记录系统的开发，并将其授权给一家商业制造商。尽管IMET传感器现已上市，但如果没有适当的校准和安装，它们将无法按照特定的WOCE标准运行，这将是每个联索办事处船只独一无二的。正如提案中所述，“由于IMET的开发是在世界卫生组织进行的，记录该系统并在几艘船上进行初始系统安装的专门知识目前仅存在于世界卫生组织。”这项提议要求资金开始记录卫生组织组织制定的专门知识，以便向所有联索办事处运营者提供信息。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.