Thanks to an exceptional work of the SWOT Project teams, some preliminary images of SWOT-derived sea surface height and sigma0 are being already produced. The images are generated with non-validated beta products from the SWOT KaRIn instrument in support to AdAC campaigns for their planning strategies.
PhD student focusing on how submesoscale ocean dynamics affect phytoplankton communities and plankton distribution.
INTERVIEW – Louise Rousselet, SWOT AdAC Science Officer, is in charge of producing the daily bulletin that informs BioSWOT-Med adaptive sampling strategy as well as the strategy of other SWOT AdAC campaigns. Here she describes what information is provided within the bulletin.
After a port call in Port-Mahon, R/V L'Atalante headed North under SWOT swath to survey a front with Lagrangian buoys and cytometer.
Zooglider is a specialized glider to study mesozooplankton. Thanks to a public website, everybody can follow it in real time while it samples waters around the Balearic Islands in the BioSWOT-Med campaign.
PhD student in physical oceanography concentrating on the impact of warm and salty Indian Ocean water leakage into the Cape Cauldron region of the southeast Atlantic.
Thanks to an international collaboration with IMEDEA, SOCIB, SCRIPPS, LOCEAN and MIO, the zooglider was deployed and start to sample the water south of the Balearic Islands, waiting to be recovered during the BioSWOT-Med campaign.
Last week-end, after ten days of companion navigation, the R/V L'Atalante and the R/V Tethys II met in Mahon (Minorca) for a joint port call. These two experiments at sea are part of a wider observation strategy concomitant with the fast-sampling phase of SWOT satellite. They are focused on an area characterized by small mesoscale structure (O(40km)) in a weak internal wave environment more prone to exhibit clear mesoscale signal.
How to optimize the design of in situ experiments aimed at reconstructing fine-scale ocean currents? Bàrbara Barceló-Llull and Ananda Pascual developed a set of simulations to evaluate different sampling strategies and their impact on the reconstruction of fine-scale sea level and surface ocean velocities.
It is a lucky day for marine microbiologists and phytoplankton lovers on R/V Antea! Researchers finally saw of their subject of study without fancy microscopes but with their own eyes!