The Sally Ride and Oceanus are both wrapping up long (36-48 hour) repeat sections down here at Pt. Sal before heading back to Oceano. Following up on the Sounder post below, we have also been intrigued by the strongly time-dependent nature of the wake eddies being shed south of Pt. Sal. The figure above shows 15 passes around our “L” … Read More
Oceanographers use this one weird trick to see internal waves!
Click-bait headline aside, we did see some fairly astounding internal wave characteristics in combing through the airborne IR data today. Specifically, Melissa and our pilot Dave flew a final transect along a bore front about 5 miles offshore Pt Sal and saw this: The view shows an IR snapshot of a portion of an internal wave packet, looking perpendicular to … Read More
APL flight highlights
The APL plane flew for about 5 hours today in the afternoon and early evening. Lots to see! See below for a few highlight photos. Also see Chris’s post from earlier today for even more good stuff!
Overnight drifter trajectories (evenging sept 12 through afternoon sept 13th)
After a day of drifters running around Pt. Sal on Tuesday (12 Sep), Jamie decided to deploy 9 of his drifters overnight. He went up to the offshore side of the Oceano array just offshore of a big NLIW scum line and let them rip. Back at the dock there was lots of discussion about what the drifter would do … Read More
SIO Airborne Flight
Another successful flight for the SIO Melville lab today. We had a mechanical issue that set back our departure time but we were still able to fly from 1430 to 1830 local time. We flew 8000ft alongshore legs from Pismo Pier to Purisima Point, down to 4000ft in a grid pattern within the Oceanus sampling box around Point Sal, then down … Read More