Sentences with phrase «oceanographic mooring»
A typical oceanographic mooring, like one deployed in the northwest Atlantic Ocean by the Global Ocean Ecoystems Dynamics (GLOBEC) program, holds a large array of instrumentation: seven current meters, seven temperature gauges, three optical turbidity scanners, four salinity / conductivity / pressure meters, and one Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) that records surface ocean current patterns around the mooring.
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An oceanographic mooring is being deployed by the crew of research vessel MARIA S. MERIAN during the expedition MSM54 into the Labrador and Irminger Sea.
To do this, the researchers use underwater microphones called hydrophones on oceanographic moorings to listen for the sounds made by marine mammals.
Our research stations monitor key indicators of our changing climate through meteorological stations, oceanographic moorings, and an expanding array of sensors across the landscape and seascape.
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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.
The study is based on the analysis of data obtained from moored observatories in the Labrador Sea and the Irminger Sea and from oceanographic floats.
In the ocean, we have begun to deploy autonomous systems that monitor oceanographic variables using surface and subsurface moorings, cabled observatories, and ocean gliders.
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.
The moored array time series, started in 2004 and completed in 2014, was maintained by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (USA), with water property observations collected by investigators from Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory (USA), Bedford Institute of Oceanography (Canada) and WHOI.