The Bermuda Testbed Mooring (BTM)

Data Reports

Deployment 1: June 3 - September 3, 1994
Deployment 2: September 16, 1994 - January 28, 1995
Deployment 3: April 5 - August 23, 1995
Deployment 4: August 29 - November 22, 1995
Deployment 5: March 26 - August 15, 1996
Deployment 6: August 20, 1996 - January 24, 1997
Deployment 7: May 3, 1997 - July 30, 1997 PDF File
Deployment 8: August 7, 1997 - November 20, 1997 PDF File
Deployment 9: November 26, 1997 - March 31, 1998 PDF File
Deployment 10: November 11, 1998 - March 19, 1999 PDF File
Deployment 11: April 1, 1999 - July 21, 1999 PDF File
Deployment 12: July 30, 1999 - November 5, 1999 PDF File
Deployment 13: December 6, 1999 - May 27, 2000 PDF File
Deployment 14: June 1, 2000 - November 29, 2000 PDF File
Deployment 15: March 16, 2001 - November 4, 2001 PDF File
Deployment 16: December 6, 2001 - Feburary 24, 2002 PDF File
Deployment 17: September, 2002 - May 4, 2003 PDF File
Deployment 18: May 10, 2003 - November 13, 2003 PDF File
Deployment 19: February 21, 2004 - April 10, 2004 PDF File
Deployment 20: May 4, 2004 - September 28, 2004 PDF File
Deployment 21: October 7, 2004 - April 13, 2005 PDF File
Deployment 22: May 13, 2005 - September 27, 2005 PDF File
Deployment 23: October 21, 2005 - July 02, 2006 PDF File
Deployment 24: July 14, 2006 - March 1, 2007 PDF File
Deployment 25: March 12, 2007 - October 1, 2007 PDF File

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BTM-Related References

Jiang, S., T. Dickey, D. Steinberg and L. Madin (2007) Temporal variability of zooplankton biomass from ADCP backscatter time series data at the Bermuda Testbed Mooring Site, Deep Sea Res. I, 54, 608-636.

Dickey, T, G. Chang, C. Moore, A. Hanson, D. Karl, D. Manov, F. Spada, D. Peters, J. Kemp, O. Schofield, and S. Glenn (2006) The Bermuda Testbed Mooring and HALE-ALOHA Mooring programs: Innovative Deep-Sea Global Observations, Marine Technology Society/IEEE Oceans '06, edited by V. Premus and A.J. Williams III, Boston MA, 2006.

Babin, S.M., J.A. Carton, T.D. Dickey, and J.D. Wiggert (2004) Satellite evidence of hurricane-induced plankton blooms in the ocean desert, J. Geophys. Res., 109, C3, C03043, doi:1029/2003JC001938.

Conte, M.H., T.D. Dickey, J.C. Weber, R. Johnson, and A. Knap (2003), Transient physical forcing of pulsed export of bioreactive material to the deep Sargasso Sea, Deep Sea Res. I, 50(10-11), 1157-1187.

Zedler, S.E., T.D. Dickey, S.C. Doney, J.F. Price, X. Yu, and G.L. Mellor (2002) Analysis and simulations of the upper ocean's response to Hurricane Felix at the Bermuda Testbed Mooring site: August 13-23, 1995, J. Geophys. Res., 107 (12), (2002), p. 25-1. doi:10.1029/2001JC00969, 2002.

Zheng, X., T. Dickey, and G. Chang (2002) Variability of the downwelling diffuse attenuation coefficient with consideration of inelastic scattering, Appl. Opt., 41(30), 6477-6488. (R)

Dickey, T., S. Zedler, D. Frye, H. Jannasch, D. Manov, D. Sigurdson, J.D. McNeil, L. Dobeck, X. Yu, T. Gilboy, C. Bravo, S.C. Doney, D.A. Siegel, and N. Nelson (2001) Physical and biogeochemical variability from hours to years at the Bermuda Testbed Mooring site: June 1994 - March 1998, Deep-Sea Res. II, 48, 2105-2140.

Gilboy, T.P., T.D. Dickey, D.E. Sigurdson, X. Yu, and D. Manov (2000) An intercomparison of current measurements using a VMCM, an ADCP, and a recently developed acoustic current meter, J. Atmos. Ocean Tech., 17,561-574.

McNeil, J.D., H. Jannasch, T. Dickey, D. McGillicuddy, M. Brzezinski, and C.M. Sakamoto (1999) New chemical, bio-optical, and physical observations of upper ocean response to the passage of a mesoscale eddy, J. Geophys. Res., 104, 15,537-15,548. provisionally accepted.

Dickey, T., D. Frye, H. Jannasch, E. Boyle, D. Manov, D. Sigurdson, J. McNeil, M. Stramska, A. Michaels, N. Nelson, D. Siegel, G.C. Chang, J. Wu, and A. Knap (1998) Initial results from the Bermuda Testbed Mooring Program, Deep-Sea Research, 45, 771-794.

Dickey, T., D. Frye, J. McNeil, D. Manov, N. Nelson, D. Sigurdson, H. Jannasch, D. Siegel, A. Michaels, and R. Johnson (1998) Upper ocean temperature response to Hurricane Felix as measured by the Bermuda Testbed Mooring, Mon. Wea. Rev., 126, 1195-1201.

Dickey, T., A. Plueddemann, and R. Weller, Current and water property measurements in the coastal ocean, an invited contribution to The Sea, Ch. 14, edited by A. Robinson and K. Brink, pp. 367-398, 1998.

McGillicuddy, D.J., A.R. Robinson, D.A. Siegel, H.W. Jannasch, R. Johnson, T.D. Dickey, J.D. McNeil, A.F. Michaels, and A.H. Knap (1998) New evidence for the impact of mesoscale eddies on biogeochemical cycling in the Sargasso Sea, Nature, 394, 263-266

Nelson, N.B., 1998: Spatial and temporal extent of sea surface temperature modifications by hurricanes in the Sargasso Sea during the 1995 season, Monthly Weather Review, 126, 1364-1368.

Dickey, T. and N. Nelson, (1996) In the eye fo the storm: Bermuda mooring records hurricane's passage., U.S. JGOFS NEWS, vol7, #4.

Nelson, N.B., (1996) The wake of Hurricane Felix, Int. J. Remote Sensing, 17, 2893-2895.

Dickey, T., (1995) Bermuda Testbed Mooring Program, Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 76, 584.

Stramska, M., T. Dickey, J. Marra, A. Plueddemann, C. Langdon, and R. Weller (1995) Bio-optical variability associated with phytoplankton dynamics in the North Atlantic Ocean during spring and summer of 1991, Journal of Geophysical Research, 100, 6621-6632.

Dickey, T., T. Granata, J. Marra, C. Langdon, J. Wiggert, Z. Chai, M. Hamilton, J. Vazquez, M. Stramska, R. Bidigare, and D. Siegel, (1993b) Seasonal variability of bio-optical and physical properties in the Sargasso Sea, Journal of Geophysical Research, 98, 865-898.

U.S. JGOFS Planning Report Number 18, (1993) Bio-optics in U.S. JGOFS, eds. T. Dickey and D. Siegel, 180pp.

Wiggert, J., T. Dickey, and T. Granata, (1993) The effect of temporal undersampling on primary production estimates, Journal of Geophysical Research, 99, 3361-3371.

Dickey, T., (1991) The emergence of concurrent high resolution physical and bio-optical measurements in the upper ocean and their applications, Reviews of Geophysics, 29, 383-413.