Experiment:	Shelf Mixed Layer Experiment
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
Contractor:	Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Dates:		November 1988 - May 1989
Location:	Northern California shelf: Pt. Reyes to Pt. Arena

Data acquired during experiment:

		CTD measurements
		Moored current data
		ADCP data
		Thermistor chains
		T/C recorders
		Meteorological data (see /NDBC)
		Sea level data (see /NOS)


The Shelf Mixed Layer Experiment (SMILE) was designed to study the response of
the oceanic surface boundary layer over the continental shelf to atmospheric
forcing.  The SMILE field program was conducted over the northern California
shelf between Pt. Arena and Pt. Reyes from mid-November 1988 to mid-May 1989.
The field program consisted of five main components: 

	a) a long term moored array to obtain current, temperature, and
	conductivity time series observations in the upper ocean over the
	shelf;
	b) a short-term moored instrument deployment to measure the vertical
	current shear and stratification in the top 6 m of the water column;
	c) shipboard CTD and acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP) surveys
	over the shelf and adjacent slope to map regional water property and
	current distributions;
	d) a long-term moored and coastal meteorological array including one
	sounding station to obtain time series observations of the atmospheric
	surface forcing and monitor the structure of the marine boundary layer;
	e) overflights with an instrumented aircraft to measure the spatial
	structure of the surface wind, wind stress, and heat flux fields under
	different atmospheric conditions.	(WHOI data report 91-39)