7-10:
 OCEAN -- The upwelling hit the surface today, with coastal ocean temps dropping to the low 60s in many ares north and south of our research site. Today, we have an addition to our ocean data as the first ships gathered data for our month long research project. CODAR compliments this ship data in showing the offshore currents, but unfortunately, it was too cloudy to get good satellite imagery. Maybe tomorrow, but, TODAY, IT BEGINS.....

ADCP and CTD data collected from the R/V Caleta reveal some very interesting hydrodynamic features above topographic irregularities on the S1 line.  Isotherms seem to dip sharply just offshore the location of a sand trough and along-shore currents are accelerated near the ridges of these topographic features.  The data from the flourometer indicates that the locations of the troughs coincide with increased biological activity.  Yesterday's upwelling favorable winds have begun to veer towards the northeast and east. 

7:11:
OCEAN -- Easy come, easy go. The upwelling winds have left us, and are now downwelling favorable. The inertial motion of the surface layer kept it moving offshore during the morning (CODAR below) but this should reverse by evening and continue for the next couple of days as winds are expected to be from the north. The temperature sections in the R/V Caleta cruise data show the thermocline lower inshore in the afternoon than during the morning runs, which in an indicator of weak downwelling.

The influence of the topographic features is even more pronounced today than it was yesterday.  The early morning S1 transect shows a southward flowing surface current that dips down about 8-10m into the though, and a northward current just above ridge crests.  The plot of along-shelf currents with temperature overlays clearly indicates regions of convergence and divergence possibly associated with vorticity dynamics.

7-12:
OCEAN -- The Northerly winds are forcing the surface layer of the ocean back into shore, yes, we are once again in downwelling mode. Both the CODAR and SST Data confirm this.

7-13:
OCEAN -- Did I mention that there was a downwelling in progress? No? Well there is, even though it is fairly weak. The CODAR surface current measurements are being dominated by tidal velocities rather than wind induced currents at this time (see Below). In other words, there isn't a heck of a lot happenng on the surface in terms of current speeds.

Today the R/V Caleta ran a series of transects to further investigate the influence of along shelf topography on the flow to the south of the A-line.  Two radiator patterns were run over the deepest part of the trough.  Unfortunately, topographic steering of the flow field was not observed due to weak winds and currents.   

7-14:
OCEAN -- There is absolutely nothing going on in the ocean today. The physics has stablized (cold/saline bottom layer, and warm surface layer). The only currents seem to be tidal ones. The cold bottom water is within a couple miles of the beach. Things should get interesting tonight and tomorrow though, as a storm comes through.

7-15:
OCEAN -- The southerly winds over the last 36 hours have caused an upwelling to surface north of Barnegat Light (North of the bend in the New Jersey coastline). The Node data shows the cold/high saline bottom water is again moving onshore. This movment began to change late in the day however, as the easterly component of winds increased, pushing the surface water back onshore (shown in afternoon CODAR). The sea state was a bit choppy with wave heights at 4 to 5 feet.

7-16:
OCEAN -- The upwelling reared it's head again north of Barnegat Inlet and seems to be just breaking the surface off of Great Bay. The weak southerly winds should continue to push the surface currents off shore. The offshore bottom temps continue to be cold at about 12.8C.

7-17:
OCEAN -- The upwelling is indeed rising again, slowly. The Pipe seems to have been found once again in shore (ADCP velocities below). In the afternoon the surface currents were back on shore in response to the easterly wind component.

The upwelling favorable winds over the weekend have ceased by early this morning, although we may have caught a trapped shelf-wave propagating down the coast.  The first two transects, N1 and N2, reveal a southward flow.  The N3 line shows an intensified southward current, which appears in N1 and N2 later in the afternoon.  One exciting hydrodynamic feature that we caught today was a subsurface jet at 7-10m.  This ribbon of southward flowing water was located at the thermocline and tended to contain high levels of fluorescence.