| The SMBO Mooring is a
"real-time" Oceanographic Data Acquisition Mooring located
in the North-West portion of Santa Monica Bay, CA. The mooring
was built for UCLA by The Monterey
Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) in Moss Landing, CA.
The mooring is owned and operated by the UCLA Institute of the Environment
(IOE), a multi-disciplinary institution at the University
of California, Los Angeles.
The SMBO Mooring is a highly sophisticated system
that is capable of sampling, logging, and transmitting data via
packet radio on a semi-continuous basis. Measurements are
taken approximately every ten minutes and stored internally until an
hourly download is achieved via packet radio. The data are
then automatically processed and archived on a Windows XP PC located
on the Pepperdine University campus in Malibu, CA. This was made possible through coordination with Dr. Karen Martin, and support by Douglas Gilbert of the Pepperdine Natural Sciences Division. The data are then transferred via FTP to
this webserver for the world to view.
Data are available for download in ASCII
format. Instrument specifications can be found on the
specs page. Due to the temperamental nature of the
packet radio downloads, some data are lost or bad data is sometimes
downloaded. Please see the Notes page for information
regarding missed downloads, bad data, parameter adjustments, etc.
The Notes page also explains the format of the data files.
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