Ocean research enabled by underwater gliders

DL Rudnick - Annual review of marine science, 2016 - annualreviews.org
Underwater gliders are autonomous underwater vehicles that profile vertically by changing
their buoyancy and use wings to move horizontally. Gliders are useful for sustained …

Potential for an underwater glider component as part of the Global Ocean Observing System

T Liblik, J Karstensen, P Testor, P Alenius… - Methods in …, 2016 - Elsevier
The contributions of autonomous underwater gliders as an observing platform in the in-situ
global ocean observing system (GOOS) are investigated. The assessment is done in two …

The S outhwest P acific O cean circulation and climate experiment (SPICE)

A Ganachaud, S Cravatte, A Melet… - Journal of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Southwest Pacific Ocean Circulation and Climate Experiment (SPICE) is an
international research program under the auspices of CLIVAR. The key objectives are to …

Reviewing the circulation and mixing of Antarctic Intermediate Water in the South Pacific using evidence from geochemical tracers and Argo float trajectories

HC Bostock, PJ Sutton, MJM Williams… - Deep Sea Research Part I …, 2013 - Elsevier
Evidence from physical and geochemical tracers measured during the World Ocean
Circulation Experiment (WOCE) shows that there are four sub-types of Antarctic Intermediate …

Poleward flows in the southern California Current System: Glider observations and numerical simulation

RE Todd, DL Rudnick, MR Mazloff… - Journal of …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Three years of continuous Spray glider observations in the southern California Current
System (CCS) are combined with a numerical simulation to describe the mean and …

Spreading of Levantine Intermediate Waters by submesoscale coherent vortices in the northwestern M editerranean S ea as observed with gliders

A Bosse, P Testor, L Mortier, L Prieur… - Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Since 2007, gliders have been regularly deployed in the northwestern Mediterranean Sea, a
crucial region regarding the thermohaline circulation of the Mediterranean Sea. It revealed …

Coupled nitrate nitrogen and oxygen isotopes and organic matter remineralization in the Southern and Pacific Oceans

PA Rafter, PJ DiFiore… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The difference between nitrate δ15N and δ18O, or Δ (15–18), is sensitive to organic matter
remineralization and tracks the modification of nitrate as it passes from the deep Pacific …

Scales and dynamics of S ubmesoscale C oherent V ortices formed by deep convection in the northwestern M editerranean S ea

A Bosse, P Testor, L Houpert, P Damien… - Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Since 2010, an intense effort in the collection of in situ observations has been carried out in
the northwestern Mediterranean Sea thanks to gliders, profiling floats, regular cruises, and …

[HTML][HTML] Distribution and drivers of symbiotic and free-living diazotrophic cyanobacteria in the western tropical South Pacific

M Stenegren, A Caputo, C Berg, S Bonnet… - …, 2018 - bg.copernicus.org
The abundance and distribution of cyanobacterial diazotrophs were quantified in two
regions (Melanesian archipelago, MA; and subtropical gyre, SG) of the western tropical …

Mean circulation of the Coral Sea

WS Kessler, S Cravatte - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The mean absolute geostrophic circulation of the Coral Sea is constructed from
climatological hydrographic data referenced to a 1000 m velocity field derived from Argo …