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

Weller和Hosom博士要求为初步开发提供资金， 改进的气象（IMET）传感器的文档。 更 许多研究都需要精确的气象数据 作为世界海洋环流实验的一部分计划进行的努力 该实验将于1992年开始进行实地试验。 虽然 许多传感器是商业上可获得的，它们的精度和 船舶和浮标的校准直到2000年才进行测试。 最近 在PI的初始赠款中完成的工作（OCE- 87-09614）量化了一些 浮标和船舶传感器，以及PI和 制造商对传感器进行了改进。 开发一个数据记录系统，适用于 传感器也已完成，并授权给商业 制造商 虽然IMET传感器现在已经商业化，但它们 如果没有适当的， 校准和安装，这对每个联合国后勤基地都是独一无二的 容器。 正如提案中所述，“自发展 IMET是在WHOI进行的，它是记录 系统，并在几艘船上进行初始系统安装 目前，它只存在于WHOI。“这项建议要求资金， 开始记录已开发的专业知识 以便使所有联合国后勤处都能得到这些资料 运营商 这些信息需要提供准确的 尽快向研究人员提供气象数据。

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.