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  • 800,892 liters of seawater collected during HOT cruises
  • 216 HOT cruises completed
  • 16 Ships used throughout the HOT project
  • 3,933 CTD casts done throughout all HOT cruises
  • 54,674 Salinity water samples processed
  • 15,603 Nutrient water samples processed
  • 23,289 Oxygen water samples processed
  • 219 Graduate, Undergraduate and High School students that have participated on HOT Cruises
  • 5,213,734 meters: total length of all CTD casts during HOT cruises

The Physical Oceanography Component of HOT (HOT/PO)

The objective of the PO component of HOT is to describe and understand the ocean climate and variability at a deep-water site in the North Pacific subtropical gyre near Hawaii. This requires a long time series of physical oceanographic variables, including water mass properties and currents, supporting and complementing the objectives of the biogeochemical component of HOT.

HOT was initiated and funded through grants from the National Science Foundation under the auspices of the Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (JGOFS) and the World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE).   MORE >

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    This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. OCE 9303094, 9811921, 0117919, and 0327513. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NSF.