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From New England to China

01/12/2010

RDSEA and Associates, Inc. (St Pete Beach, FL) along with Down East Instrumentation, LLC (Cary, NC) recently returned from China where they delivered and commissioned the first of three initially scheduled “air-sea interaction” buoy systems to China’s State Oceanic Administration (SOA), First Institute of Oceanography, Qingdao. System-One left New England after assembly and full testing back in June of 2009. Upon arrival, Rick Cole (RDSEA) and Jeffery Kinder (Down East Instrumentation) met the shipment in Qingdao to re-build, set-up and test again as well as provide initial training on the system to SOA’s Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction and Climate Change Group professors, staff and students. The buoy system and mooring consist of a state-of-the-art suite of sensors that will transmit subsurface oceanographic data (currents, temperature, conductivity and pressure) from seventeen sensors (700-meters to the surface) along with full MET at the sea-surface via the Iridium Satellite Constellation back to China. Deployment of System-One is scheduled for early 2010 with System-Two replacing it 12-months later. System-Three deploys in April, 2010, Andaman Sea. Results from each project to be published at a future date.
These buoy systems are in support of the Indonesian Ocean Observing System (IndOOS), its’ mooring component The Research Moored Array for the African-Asian-Australian Monsoon Analysis and Prediction Program (RAMA) and the Monsoon Onset Monitoring and its Social & Ecosystem Impacts (MOMSEI) Program in the Andaman Sea, west of Thailand. Emphasis is on the role of the ocean for prediction of the Asian Monsoon, Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) and ENSO (El Nino), all contributing factors to global climate. Continued science and technology transfer to the Indian Ocean-Rim countries helps establish observing capabilities in the region and to promote an observing level to understand its’ role in the global climate system.

(Pictured: First Institute of Oceanography (FIO), State Oceanic Administration's Air-Sea Interaction, Climate Change Group upon commissioning of System #1 in Qingdao, China, Oct. 2009. Rick Cole, Jeff Kinder, rear, center, Dr. Weidong Yu, front, center and Jennifer Sindelir of Teledyne RD Instruments, front, left (next to Dr. Yu).)