Ocean Profiling Articles & Analysis: Older
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As climate change and human activity threaten the state of our lakes, rivers, streams, and oceans, temperature profiling provides us with a powerful tool to gain valuable insights and reduce the risks associated with these life-sustaining resources. In this blog, we’ll discuss a few uses of temperature profiling in aquatic environments, ...
Europe floating wind cost forecast (Click image to enlarge) Source: WindEurope's Floating Offshore Wind Energy: a Policy Blueprint for Europe (October 2018) DIGIFLOAT will use a network of linked offshore buoys developed by University of Washington's Applied Physics Laboratory (APL-UW) to measure and predict a range of incoming wave metrics at the site. The buoys also measure ...
Monitoring of ice-shelf and sub-ice-shelf ocean temperatures represents an important component in understanding ice-sheet stability. ...
However, the mechanical inertia of the upper ocean is about three orders of magnitude smaller than the thermal inertia. ...