Data Analyses of Bernuda Testbed Mooring and Complementary Data sets Collected during 1994-2007

在该奖项的资助下，位于圣巴巴拉的加州大学的研究人员将收集百慕大试验台系泊系统部署期间收集的各种数据集，并将其公开提供给海洋学界，用于研究和教育目的。 从1994年年中到2007年10月，海底地形测量仪作为一个连续取样深海系泊设备，专门收集高时间分辨率、随深度变化的跨学科数据，用于海洋学研究，并测试新仪器，用于通过长期海洋变化进行短时间尺度的持续观测。 BTM数据对许多科学方案作出了重大贡献，如百慕大大西洋时间序列和海洋通量方案项目，以及BTM的几个合作者和其他研究人员的研究。自1994年以来，已有100多名研究人员使用了BTM和/或其数据集。更广泛的影响：预计BTM数据集和分析（包括补充数据集）将对个人研究人员、团体和有组织的项目致力于开发基于社区的物理和地球化学海洋学模型的几项主要建模工作有价值。 此外，潜在的社会影响包括改善对飓风及其影响、气候变化、海洋健康和天气预测的监测和可预测性。

With funding from this award, researchers at the University of California at Santa Barbara will assemble the various datasets collected during the deployment of the Bermuda Testbed Mooring (BTM) and make them openly available to the oceanographic community for research and educational purposes. From mid-1994 through October 2007, the BTM served as an autonomous-sampling deep-sea mooring dedicated to the collection of high temporal resolution, depth-dependent, interdisciplinary data for oceanographic studies and testing of novel instrumentation for sustained observations of short time-scale through long-term oceanic variability. BTM data have contributed significantly to many scientific programs such as the Bermuda Atlantic Time Series (BATS) and Ocean Flux Program (OFP) projects and to the research of several BTM collaborators and other researchers. Over 100 investigators have utilized the BTM and/or its datasets since 1994.Broader Impacts: It is anticipaterd that BTM datasets and analyses (including complementary data sets) will be valuable for several major modeling efforts by individual investigators, groups, and organized programs dedicated to developing community-based physical and biogeochemical oceanographic models. Additionally, potential societal impacts include improved monitoring and predictability of hurricanes and their impacts, climate change, health of the ocean, and weather prediction.