[Coral-List] An observation, Sargassum weed washing up on St. Croix beaches

[Doug Wilson - NOAA Affiliate]

Thanks to CariCOOS (http://www.caricoos.org), UPR, and UVI, there are some
useful observing assets - including 6 buoys - in the PR/VI region.
Here is a link (hope dropbox works...I can email if not)
https://db.tt/wnjSksZP
to Surface Salinity, March 2014 to present, from the UVI A buoy a few miles
S of Charlotte Amalie, STT.
I don't know if this is visible on satellite images, but this is the the
sort of significant salinity signal usually associated with Orinoco R water
at this time of the year.

Doug Wilson
Caribbean wind LLC
Project Coordinator, IOCARIBE-GOOS

On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 1:15 PM, Alan Strong (NOAA Affiliate) <
alan.e.strong at noaa.gov> wrote:

> Is this material flowing northward from the Orinoco (Venezuela) again??
>
> Cheers,
> Al
>
>
> Chuanmin Hu said the following on 10/2/2014 11:15 AM:
> > Hi Melissa:
> > My group has been generating real-time satellite images for quite some
> > time to monitor floating materials in the eastern Caribbean and N
> > Central Atlantic:
> > http://optics.marine.usf.edu/cgi-bin/optics_data?roi=ECARIB&current=1
> >
> http://optics.marine.usf.edu/cgi-bin/optics_data?roi=C_ATLANTIC&current=1
> > Pick a date and time, choose the AFAI image, then you can observe those
> > elongated and color coded slicks. If you click on the GE button below
> > the image you can also bring that image together with the corresponding
> > surface currents into Google Earth so you can navigate. You can also
> > select "Animate" to choose a period to browse through all the images.
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Chuanmin
> >
> > On 10/1/2014 12:09 PM, MelissaE Keyes wrote:
> >> Hello, Listers,
> >>
> >> St Croix in the U.S.Virgin Islands is supposed to be hundreds of
> kilometers south of the Sargasso Sea.  For a few weeks now, Sargassum Weed
> has been washing ashore on the south-east coast beaches..There is so much,
> you can smell it for miles driving along the south coast road, and when the
> breeze is from the SE, the odor is even present on the north side of the
> island.
> >>
> >> Just an observation.  This happened once before, three years ago.  The
> weed was mainly on the north side of the island that time.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >>
> >> Melissa
> >>
> >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >> Melissa E. Keyes
> >> St. Croix,
> >> U.S.Virgin Islands
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