Sentences with phrase «deploy ocean bottom»
Immediately after the earthquake, the agency sent another vessel, Kairei, to deploy ocean bottom seismometers in the area of the earthquake to monitor aftershocks and get a better understanding of the fault zone.
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Tide heights near ice shelves can be measured using traditional coastal tide gauges and bottom pressure recorders, while currents can be measured with meters on moorings in the open ocean or deployed through boreholes drilled through ice shelves, which are the floating portions of ice sheets.
With shelter and weather station established and working well, we decided to drill a 10» hole through 0.6 m thin ice to deploy a string of ocean instruments from just below the ice bottom to the sea floor 110 m below.