Argo Float Recovery Near Greenland – RV Meteor
You may find this blog post also on oceanblogs. Follow Meteor’s position in real time! Over the past 20 years, Argo floats have caused a small revolution in the field…
Exploring the Western Labrador Sea Aboard the RV Meteor – Week #1
By Anne-Sophie Fortin Departure from St John’s Harbour August 11-12, 2022 The water is still in the harbour by night. Shrouded in what seems like a perpetual mist, the Meteor…
Aboard the R/V Neil Armstrong
By Bill Johns, Chief Scientist Our cruise is now about halfway through, and spirits are high as we steadily make progress on accomplishing our cruise objectives. Yesterday the final University…
A Modeler’s First Cruise
By Daan Reijnders “Well, I’m somewhat of a stowaway here…” This is how I’ve been introducing myself to some crew members in the messroom during dinner or when fetching some…
The night shift
By Phoebe Hudson It’s 11 pm – time to wake up! I re-open my porthole and it’s now dark outside, with only the whitewash as a contrast against the dark…
A new tool to compare models and observations
A simple Python code that computes the meridional overturning circulation (MOC) from a model dataset interpolated onto the OSNAP section. More information can be found on the o-snap website under…
Start of OSNAP East
by Femke de Jong After four years the University of Miami and Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ) teams are once again out at sea together again. Four years…
Fallen out of time
By Marilena Oltmanns Tirelessly, full of determination, and with a hint of stubbornness, the ship cleaved its way through the sea. It hadn’t seen land for days and now, in…
Greetings from RSS James Cook! (Part 2)
By Rita Markina On 15 July, we recovered the first mooring system at the easternmost point of the OSNAP array. A mooring is an anchored system that consists of many…
Greetings from RSS James Cook!
By Rita Markina The UK OSNAP team left Southampton on 12 July and is heading into the sub-polar North Atlantic. We will be working on the very eastern part of…