Operational oceanography using the new SeaSoar undulator

Sea Technology;  April 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......Single Data Link SeaSoar is a towed undulating vehicle capable of achieving undulations...achieve this, the SeaSoar is towed from a standard Rochester...fitted CTD). The SeaSoar towed undulating vehicle had been originally developed...

Direct Observations of Along-Isopycnal Upwelling and Diapycnal Velocity at...

Journal of Physical Oceanography;  March 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......and bio-optical fields were mapped using a towed undulating vehicle, and horizontal velocity was measured with...fields are sampled with high resolution using a towed undulating vehicle and a shipboard acoustic Doppler current profiler...

Recorders Seen as a Key in Monitoring Trends in LMEs

Sea Technology;  September 1, 2005 ;     440 words ......West Molesey, England) has delivered an instrumented towed undulating oceanographie recorder, Nv-Shuttle, to the Marine...sensor payload. C'helsea maintains that the use of towed undulating oceanographic recorders is a key activity in monitoring...also fitted with an autonomous plankton sampler. ...

The Pumping SeaSoar: A high-resolution seawater sampling platform

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology;  July 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......ocean character is increasingly recognized. The use of towed undulating vehicles, beginning in the early 1970s, has led to...the faster dive and ascent rates experienced with towed undulating vehicles. Our goal was to bring basic chemical oceanography...sampling system of Friederich and Codispoti ...

Optic control of undulating platform

Sea Technology;  May 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) operates the towed undulating vehicle SeaSoar, the sensor suite of which typically...had considerable application in ROVs, but an undulating vehicle operating in a wide range of depths poses some...

Microstructure Measurements from a Towed Undulating Platform

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology;  October 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......1998). The recently developed MicroSoar (May 1997; Dillon et al. 2003), a microstructure sampling system attached to the towed undulating SeaSoar (Pollard 1986) platform, can sample over a length a magnitude of order larger than tethered profilers. While direct...

A Method for Processing Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler Velocity Data...

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology;  September 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......coverage and the inherent contradiction between range and resolution suggest deployment of a 1200-kHz ADCP on a towed, undulating vehicle. Use of the enhanced sampling rate via RD Instruments' (RDI's) mode 12 feature is useful to improve accuracy...

Oxygen monitoring with the towed vehicle delphin

Sea Technology;  June 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......parameters such as conductivity, temperature, depth and turbidity have been determined from sensors attached to a towed undulating vehicle. One of the parameters which is of particular interest to the scientist is dissolved oxygen. Historically there...

Spanish Research Council Purchases New SeaSoar System for RV Sarmiento de...

Sea Technology;  April 1, 2008 ;     177 words ...West Molesey, England-based Chelsea Technologies Group (CTG) is pleased to announce delivery of a new SeaSoar towed undulating system to CSIC (Madrid, Spain) for its new vessel, RV Sarmiento de Gamboa. This SeaSoar has been fitted with a Seabird...

A towed body sample for monitoring marine ecosystems

Sea Technology;  September 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......concentration and productivity of the phyto- and zooplankton. The basis of our sampler is a Chelsea Instruments Nv-Shuttle 500, a towed, undulating oceanographic recorder. It has a payload area of ca 100 cm x 50 cm x 20 cm, can be towed at speeds up to 15 knots and is...

Changing winds and ocean mixing: studies of the Arabian Sea monsoon.

Oceanus;  March 22, 1996 ;     432 words ......program sponsored by the Office of Naval Research, which funded our work, and the National Science Foundation. We used the towed, undulating sampler SeaSoar to measure temperature, salinity, and other variables in boxes on either side of the main summertime jet...