Wind measurements from an array of oceanographic moorings and from F/S Meteor during JASIN 1978.

During the Joint Air-Sea Interaction (JASIN) experiment conducted in the northern Rockall Trough in the summer of 1978, oceanographic moorings with surface buoys carrying wind recorders were deployed in an array designed to investigate the variability of the near- surface wind field at scales of from 2 to 200 km. The wind records, together with observations taken on board the research vessels participating in JASIN, have provided ground truth measurements for the sea surface wind velocity sensors on the Seasat satellite. During most of the experiment the wind field was characterized by spatial scales large in comparison with the separations between the buoys.-from Authors