Sentences with phrase «oceanographic instrument»

To do this, every Spring we deploy an automated drifting station and a bottom moored oceanographic instrument string in the vicinity of the North Pole.

What it does: Manufactures oceanographic instruments for public and private researchers

The project hopes to raise funds by charging companies to test new oceanographic instruments on the NEPTUNE network, and to sell parts of their data - management system.

In their research − funded by the US National Science Foundation and the National Natural Science Foundation of China — they analysed millions of measurements of temperature and salinity taken by oceanographic instruments since 1970, and tracked the pathways that the heat must have taken since the beginning of the 21st century.

«The whales can give us data that only the most expensive and sophisticated oceanographic instruments can duplicate,» says Dr Kristin Laidre of University of Washington's Polar Science Centre, «they are diving repeatedly to the bottom, all year round.»

Not exact matches

The model was developed recently by the US government's National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to make use of new sea and wind data collected from instruments moored across the Pacific as part of the international Tropical Ocean / Global Atmosphere (TOGA) research programme.

In a study conducted in the region two years prior to when Matthew's trekked across the Caribbean Sea, the research team in the Upper Ocean Dynamics Laboratory at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science deployed 55 aircraft ocean instruments from the National Oceanographic Atmospheric Administration's WP - 3D aircraft.

Now a research team led by scientists at MIT and including colleagues from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, the University of Toronto, and elsewhere has developed an instrument that can rapidly and precisely analyze samples of environmental methane to determine how the gas was formed.

From my window on the world, I keep expecting to see a fleet of oceanographic research ships down in the Greenland Sea, plumbing the depths with improved instruments, trying to figure out the what - how - why questions of this salty river.