CTD special
by Nora Fried and Patricia Handmann Today this blog is focusing on one of the central Instruments of almost all oceanographic cruises: the CTD – Conductivity-Temperature-Depth sensor. One of the…
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…
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…
Structure of currents and their transport in the eastern Subpolar North Atlantic
By Elizabeth Comer As part of the OSNAP array, the Extended Ellett Line (EEL) is a repeat hydrographic section that crosses between Iceland and Scotland. This line measures part of…
Predicting the next 18 months of the AMOC at the RAPID line with a statistical model
by Nick Foukal, graduate student at Duke University As the RAPID team prepares to release the next 18 months of AMOC measurements from the mooring array at 26°N, I have…
Ice, Wind & Fury
By Marilena Oltmanns *This article was originally published in Oceanus magazine. Dead silence falls over Tasiilaq. Whatever mid-winter daylight appeared briefly in this village on the southeast coast of Greenland…
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…
Towards the end…
by Laura de Steur OSNAP 9: R/V Pelagia (EAST Leg 2) As we are nearing the end of our cruise the last CTD station was finalized late last night, and…
Why do we RAFOS?
by Femke de Jong OSNAP 9: R/V Pelagia (EAST Leg 2) Since the start of the cruise I’ve been asked this question by many people on the ship. Possibly those…
Final post from the Thassala
By Camille Lique RREX cruise: R/V Thassala It is been a week since we came back to dry land. After 35 days at sea, everyone was pretty excited to be…