Focus on quality control
By Dasha Atamanchuk This doesn’t sound new: Having bad data is worse than having no data! Anyone who had to deal with ‘fishy’ numbers coming out from instrument will agree.…
SeaCycler Deployment
by Greg Siddall Introduction: The VITALS (Ventilation, Interactions and Transports Across the Labrador Sea) research network is funded to study how the deep ocean exchanges carbon dioxide, oxygen, and heat…
Somewhere in the Labrador Sea
by Marilena Oltmanns 56°N, 52°W. For days we have been cruising around these coordinates, and no matter whether we are some sea miles further south, north, east or west –…
Crossing the deep convective regions in the North Atlantic
by Sijia Zou Another promising year for measuring Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation starts with cruise Maria S. Merian 54 (MSM 54), which departed St. John’s, Canada on 12th May and…
Thursday 12.05. – Saturday 14.05.16
by Amelie Klein After some small highlights like supposed explosives in Mareike’s notebook and an unexpected upgrade to Premium Economy for some of us, we arrived at St. John’s. Thanks…
Taking part in Maria S Merians long, long journey through the Atlantic Ocean and beyond
by Johannes Karstensen, chiefscientist MSM54 expedition The ocean-class German research ships are rarely seen in Germany. They follow a route that is composed by many individual expeditions and converting the…
OSNAP at EGU 2016
Session OS1.4 The North Atlantic: natural variability and global change Tuesday (08:00-19:30) Laura de Steur and Femke de Jong EGU2016-9380 Variability in the Irminger Sea: new results from continuous ocean…
OSNAP at Ocean Sciences 2016
Talks Monday, 22 February Neill Mackay 03:15-03:30 PM Room 228-230 PO13E-06: Circulation and mixing in the subpolar North Atlantic diagnosed from climatology using a Regional Thermohaline Inverse Method (RTHIM) The…
Go with the flow
‘Go with the flow’: Research on the currents in the subpolar North Atlantic This past July chief scientist Laura de Steur and the crew of the Pelagia set out to…
What will the RAPID team find when they recover their ocean moorings this autumn?
by Helen Johnson, Helen Pillar, David Marshall and So Takao Since 2004, oceanographers from the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton, together with US colleagues, have been using data from ocean…