https://cdn.earthdata.nasa.gov/conduit/upload/5182/KeywordsCommunityGuide_Baseline_v1_SIGNED_FINAL.pdf 23.7 2026-04-15T10:53:30.610Z https://gcmd.earthdata.nasa.gov/KeywordViewer/scheme/projects/eed1e87e-86a4-449b-b7f4-e1ac81f62b1e BOMEX With the cooperation of the Government of Barbados and with theNational Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration as lead agency, theBarbados Oceanographic and Meteorological Experiment (BOMEX) wasconducted over the tropical Atlantic East of Barbados in the summer of1969. The field operations for this multiagency national study of theocean-atmosphere system were divided into four observation periods:May 3 to 15, May 24 to June 10, June 19 to July 2, and July 11 to july28. The first three were devoted to the Sea Air InteractionProgram--the BOMEX 'Core Experiment'--within a 500-km by 500-km squareship array. During the fourth period, the array was extended southwardto incorporate the Intertropical Convergence Zone.Following the field operations, the Barbados Oceanographic andMeteorological Analysis Project (BOMAP) Office was established toreduce and process the data that had been collected by ship, aircraft,and land-based acquisition system under the operational control of theBOMEX Temporary Archive at the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) inAsheville, N.C., in 1971.On July 1,1971, the BOMEX office became the Center for ExperimentDesign and Data Analysis (CEDDA) and was subsequently transferred fromNOAA's Environmental Research Laboratories to its Environmental DataService. One of the tasks assigned to CEDDA--in addition to itsparticipation in other field experiments, was to reprocess the BOMEXdata. Final validation of the data was undertaken through detailedanalysis and application of necessary corrections, a task that wascompleted in the fall of 1974, when the BOMEX Permanent Archive wasestablished at NCDC.For more information, link to'http://rainbow.ldgo.columbia.edu/data/NASAentries/nasa611.html'