{"id":280,"date":"2019-02-20T10:21:26","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T14:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/cclayson\/?page_id=280"},"modified":"2021-04-15T13:00:35","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T17:00:35","slug":"x-spar","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/cclayson\/projects\/x-spar\/","title":{"rendered":"X-SPAR"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t<header>\n<h1>X &#8211; SPAR<\/h1>\n<\/header>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"..\/..\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/195\/2019\/02\/XSPAR.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"278\" height=\"417\" \/>The oceans are driven by exchanges with the atmosphere across the air-sea interface. \u00a0WHOI researchers are world leaders in making observations of the marine atmospheric boundary layer and ocean surface layer, using these and various other data and models to estimate air-sea fluxes. \u00a0The X-Spar is\u00a0a low-cost part buoy for air-sea flux measurements in remote, inhospitable regions of the ocean where bottom-anchored buoys are not feasible. \u00a0It will be similar to the methodology used by WHOI Upper Ocean Processes Group, which uses\u00a0a heavily-instrumented, bottom-anchored surface buoy mooring to derive estimates of wind, stress, sensible and latent heat exchange, precipitation and short- and long-wave radiation.<\/p>\n<p>Once perfected and operational, we envision multiple WHOI X\u2011Spar buoys drifting through the Southern Ocean, as one example, with data being delivered in real time and distributed to interested parties world-wide over the internet (much as Argo float and Ice-Tethered Profiler data are now served).<\/p>\n<p>Under WHOI and Eastman funding, we have designed the spar buoy mechanics utilizing inexpensive components (e.g. commercial plastic pipe), and purchased and adapted existing sensors, interfaces and telemetry protocols for data acquisition. We have so far built and tested the X-spar itself dockside here at WHOI; at-sea trials will commence in June.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\t<h3>Funding Agencies<\/h3>\n<p>The Office of Naval Research has funded this project.<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\t<h3>Partners\/Collaborators<\/h3>\n<p>This is a joint project with Eastman Chemical Company.<\/p>\n\t<h3>Related Links and File<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/usclivar.org\/sites\/default\/files\/meetings\/2017\/carbon-posters\/edson-james-2018-tpos.pdf\">Development of an Autonomous Direct Covariance Flux System for use on Fixed &amp; Mobile Assets at Sea<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=L_iUizvja8Y\">The X-SPAR Buoy<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\t<h3>Research Paper<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/alps-ocean.us\/pdfs\/Clayson.pdf\">Observing Air-Sea Exchange with a Free-Drifting Spar Buoy<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>X &#8211; SPAR The oceans are driven by exchanges with the atmosphere across the air-sea interface. \u00a0WHOI researchers are world leaders in making observations of the marine atmospheric boundary layer and ocean surface layer, using these and various other data and models to estimate air-sea fluxes. \u00a0The X-Spar is\u00a0a low-cost part buoy for air-sea flux&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"parent":13,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/cclayson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/280"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/cclayson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/cclayson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/cclayson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/cclayson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/cclayson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":392,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/cclayson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/280\/revisions\/392"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/cclayson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/cclayson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}