Woods Hole - Hawaii Ocean Time-series Site

The WHOTS Project

In 2003, Robert Weller (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution [WHOI]), Albert Plueddemann (WHOI) and Roger Lukas (University of Hawaii [UH]) proposed to establish a long-term surface mooring at the Hawaii Ocean Time-series (HOT) Station ALOHA (22° 45'N, 158° W) to provide sustained, high-quality air-sea fluxes and the associated upper ocean response as a coordinated part of the HOT program, and as an element in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) array of global ocean reference stations.