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Founded in 1876, Texas A&M University is a U.S. public and comprehensive university offering a wide variety of academic programs far beyond its original label of agricultural and mechanical trainings. It is one of the few institutions holding triple federal designations as a land-, sea- and ...
An initiative to set up and run an infrastructure to provide assistance in the field of oceanographic data management to the MTP, including the different subprojects and associated MAST projects. The general objective of MADAM is to compile and produce an up–to–date dataset, the MTP Data Set, comprising data from the MTP as well as a set of basic tools for the scientific use of the data. Secondary objectives include managing and making available the data set during the course of MTP, set up and running a network to provide links between associated scientists, and providing support for subprojects for specific data handling problems.
Industry:Earth science
An instance of the meteorological tsunami phenomenon in the harbor of Ciutadella on the Island of Menorca in the Balearic Islands.
Industry:Earth science
An instance of the meteorological tsunami phenomenon in the Strait of Sicily.
Industry:Earth science
An instrument built by Downing Associates and used to obtain in-situ measurements of light scattering in sea water. This measurement also provides a crude measure of the particle abundance in the water. The instrument works by projecting a beam of light into the water and measuring the amount of light scattered back to a detector place next to the source. The LSS is a similar instrument.
Industry:Earth science
An instrument built by SeaTech and used to obtain in-situ measurements of light scattering in sea water. This measurement also provides a crude measure of the particle abundance in the water. The instrument works by projecting a beam of light into the water and measuring the amount of light scattered back to a detector place next to the source. The OBS is a similar instrument.
Industry:Earth science
An instrument built to fly on EOS AM-1 and that will view the entire Earth’s surface every 1 to 2 days acquiring data in 36 spectral bands to improve our understanding of globa dynamics and processes occurring on the surface of the Earth, in the oceans, and in the lower atmosphere.
Industry:Earth science
An instrument deployed off the coast of Lanai, Hawaii in Feb. 1994 to measure visible and near-infrared radiation entering and emanating from the ocean. The variations of the visible reflected radiation are referred to as the ocean color, a property from which other quantities such as the abundance of phytoplankton can be derived. MOBY will thus provide a timeseries database for bio-optical algorithm development and the calibration of such satellite instruments as SeaWiFS, MODIS, and MERIS.
Industry:Earth science
An instrument designed and built at WHOI to acquire repeated, high vertical resolution, full water column profiles of ocean currents and water properties at a fixed site. It does this by climbing up and down a fixed mooring via a traction system using a highly efficient electric motor, with battery capacity providing for over one million meters of vertical profiling. Data are stored on a hard disk during a deployment and and downloaded once the instrument is on deck. The MP can also return real–time data via satellite using inductive telemetry through the mooring cable. It is designed to carry a wide variety of sensors including a CTD and an acoustic phase–shift current meter (ACM).
Industry:Earth science
An instrument designed to autonomously collect microstructure profiles over deployments of several months duration. It consists of an autonomously profiling ALACE float outfitted with two microtemperature probes and a hard disk for data recording. The prototype was deployed in the eastern subtropical North Atlantic in the area of the NATRE study.
Industry:Earth science
