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A framework for several numerical ocean modeling projects that study the physics and biogeochemistry of the Atlantic Ocean. The goal of FLAME is to perform a series of sensitivity studies with respect to key parameters of the ocean’s dynamics.
Industry:Earth science
A framework for the distribution and analysis of oceanographic (and other) data from researchers and other data providers to intermediate and end users, including other researchers, government and commercial managers and planners, educators, students at all levels, and the general public.
Industry:Earth science
A free vehicle benthic lander designed to characterize reaction at and transport across the sediment–water interface. ROLAI2 was designed for long duration deployments (i.e. greater than 30 days) to measure the small fluxes and low reaction rates typical of most of the deep ocean. The lander does this my autonomously collecting sediment and pore water samples as well as samples from benthic chambers. Tracers can be released into the chambers to define such processes as non–diffusive exchange across the interface.
Industry:Earth science
A free–fall instrument tethered on a thin fiber optic cable designed for making repeated vertical profiles rapidly and continuously.
Industry:Earth science
A free–fall vertical velocity profiler. POGO is an acoustically–tracked dropsonde intended to measure the depth–averaged horizontal velocity from the sea surface to some preselected depth.
Industry:Earth science
A French program to monitor the Azores front and the flow of meddy across that region. This is to be done via acoustic tomography using three sound transceivers as well as with a series of CTD/ADCP stations and some XBT deployments.
Industry:Earth science
A French project started in the austral summer of 1992/1993 for monitoring climate variability at high latitudes. The objective of the program is to monitor the seasonal and interannual changes in upper ocean thermal content and salinity, as well as changes in the position, structure and transport of the polar fronts between Tasmania and Antarctica. SURVOSTRAL uses the French Antarctic supply ship Astrolabe to make measurements between Hobart, Tasmania and the French base Durmont D’Urville. Sampling is performed with XBTs and XCTDs to obtain vertical profiles of temperature and salinity, and a thermosalinograph is used to obtain continuous measurements of surface salinity and temperature.
Industry:Earth science
A French project to make systematic hydrographic observations in the North Atlantic subpolar gyre. Observations are made with the merchant ships Godafoss (between Iceland and the U.S. sine 1993) and Nuka Arctica (between Denmark and Greenland since May 1997). The sampling is mostly for temperature with XBTs and for sea surface salinity.
Industry:Earth science
A French research program that took place from 1993 until April–May 1996. It was a program in the western Equatorial Atlantic Ocean wherein hydrographic cruises with tracers were conducted along three meridional and one zonal section off Northeast South America in the region west of 35° W and south of 7.5° N. This was followed up by the ARCANE program.
Industry:Earth science
A frequency that is a simple multiple of a fundamental frequency. A second harmonic, for example, would have twice the frequency of the fundamental.
Industry:Earth science
