Megan
Carroll steadies the cable to lower the frame and array from
the tower.
WHOI
engineers Megan Carroll and Mike Purcell lower the frame and
array.
Views
from the tower as the frame and array are lowered closer to
the ocean surface.
Steve
Faluotico and Megan Carroll take a breath as Mike Purcell and
Tom Horst work in the background.
Mike Purcell and Steve Faluotico bring
the array into position.
Mike
Purcell and NCAR collaborators Tom Horst and Steve Semmer.
Photos
by WHOI Associate Scientist/OHATS Principal Investigator Jim
Edson
By
the end of the second deployment day, WHOI and NCAR engineers
had suspended the array of 18 sonic anemometers below the 12-meter
platform. The array is composed of two levels with 9 sonics
each at about 5 and 5.5 meters (16-17 feet) above mean sea level.
