Land. This is ship. The one with the radio today is Johan Edholm , and I’m a PhD student in physical oceanography with Polar Gliders from the University of Gothenburg. Our group is quite focused on heat transfer between the ocean and the atmosphere. This is quite important to know since excess heat from the atmosphere is taken up by the ocean, which dampens our warming effect on the climate. There are four major processes that control
C-SWOT campaign already started few days ago, and since Toulon we already sampled the Cassidaigne canyon offshore Marseille and its beautiful cliffs at sunset. We did not count working hours to sample the canyon, but lots of measurements were obtained and the view was worth it !
On Friday 24 March NASA released the first images of Earth’s surface water gathered with SWOT’s Ka-band Radar Interferometer (KaRIn). A first taste of the detailed perspectives that this cutting-edge instrument will be able to capture. Sea Surface Height anomaly data acquired by SWOT’s KaRIn (left) and Sea Surface Height Anomaly data from 7 active nadir altimeter missions (right). Credits: NASA. From NASA website: As seen in these early images, on Jan. 21, 2023, SWOT
The first part of the C-SWOT campaign is dedicated to measurements in the Cassidaigne submarine canyon, located in the Gulf of Lion, Northwestern Mediterranean Sea, 7 km off Marseilles. By Lénaïg Brun Presentation of the Cassidaigne canyon The Cassidaigne submarine canyon is located in a very active circulation area. First, the water masses are forced by strong westerly (Mistral) or easterly wind events which may generate upwelling or downwelling processes in the canyon. Second, the Northern Current,
C-SWOT is joint cooperative mission between SHOM and Ifremer, that plans to first study the Cassidaigne Canyon just offshore Marseille, and then sail between Marseille and Menorca right under the SWOT satellite swath.
The new Moving Vessel Profiler and its Multi-Sensor Free Fall Fish (MVP-MSFFF, so-called “big fish”), is now ready for the BIOSWOT-Med cruise.
Hi everyone, my name is Nothando Duma, a Masters student at the University of Cape Town. This is my first research cruise and I am here to collect nitrates(NO3-) and dissolved organic nitrogen (DON) isotope ratios and nutrient samples. I collect these from the water samples collected by the CTD Rosette. When I’m not collecting my own samples I assist in other areas such as the data collection of the Vertical Microstructure Profiler (VMP), deployment
The setup of the Baie des Veys Cal/Val site in Normandy was completed on March 20th.
One of the goals of the QUICCHE campaign is to characterize the air-sea heat fluxes in the Cape Cauldron, looking at what the most significant oceanic and atmospheric drivers there are in the area. Recovering the Wire Flyer in a big swell. Credits: Sam Fredriksson Good morning from the Cape Basin and the QUICCHE campaign! I’m Michaela , master student at the University of Gothenburg and I’m working on my master’s thesis as a part of
At -31 days from the depart, the team of the BioSWOT-Med campaign installed the flow cytometer on the R/V l’Atalante. It will be one of two such instruments used during the campaign.