Successful four hour flight for the SIO Melville lab today. High level clouds gave way to mostly clear skies as we focused on flying the Oceano array on top of the other vessels. We observed some interesting features as others have noted as well as a biological bloom marked by red surface waters in nearshore waters. Click photo for full size.
Tidal Bore and Soliton tracking on Oceano
Sally Ride is tracking tidal bores and internal solitary waves (ISWs) on the Oceano array today and through the night on a small southern box between the 20 and 50m isobaths. Our box coordinates are SRSW 34 58.241, 120 44.448 SRSE 34 57.912, 120 41.031 SRNE 34 58.795, 120 40.086 SRNW 34 59.211, 120 44.251 After a … Read More
IOP1 Drifter Trajectories
On Sunday, we had the first day of IOP1 operations near Pt Sal. The Sally Ann and RV Sounder joined forces around the headland. It was a beautiful day at the point as it almost always is. The Pt itself was intermittently shrouded by marine fog, below is a view from the bay south of the point. The drifters were … Read More
The BAT flies!
Today on R/V Oceanus we got the Acrobat flying with its two GusT probes sticking out front. We’re using it to survey a flux box around the Oceano array. It takes us about 3 hours to go around it at 5 knots. Before we started BATing — oh, by the way, there’s a real bat with us on Oceanus, likely … Read More
Life, the universe, and mooring arrays
42 moorings, 26 hours, 18 happy scientists.