The above movie was made by Matthew Spydell. It shows May 3rd ebb tide drifter trajectories from the RIVET experiment at New River Inlet. Bathymetry is shaded. Land regions are in gray. The bar on top indicates elapsed time (in hours) since the start of the release. For more information on this release look at this blog entry. This movie … Read More
FTP data site is now up
RIVET-ers: our ftp data site is now up. We are slowly in the process of putting processed and quality controlled data onto it. To access the ftp site please ftp to ftp://rivet@ftp.iod.ucsd.edu/ or use the ftp shell program and ftp to ftp.iod.ucsd.edu with username “rivet” If you would like access to the data please email falk feddersen (ffeddersen at ucsd.edu) … Read More
Results from both WireWalkers : both deployments
All the Wirewalker data has now been processed. Below are plots for WW1 deployment 2 and WW2 deployments 1 & 2. Note in the plots below that the dark cross-hatched areas are times when the WW data is bad. See the previous post for the map of the WW locations. WW1 Deployment 2 WireWalker 2, deployment 1 WireWalker 2, deployment … Read More
WireWalker #1 Deployment 1 results
We now have our first look at the wirewalker (WW) mooring observations. The wirewalkers use the up and down motion of the sea-surface to move a CTD+fluorometer profiling package up and down the water column. As such, good vertical and tempral resolution of the watercolumn can be acheived with a single sensor. During RIVET-I, we deployed 2 WW in … Read More