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Carlos Moffat splicing CTD line.

Carlos Moffat splicing CTD line.
Carlos Moffat splicing CTD line.
Carlos Moffat splicing CTD line.
Carlos Moffat splicing CTD line.
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Straneo, Fiammetta
Carlos Moffat splicing CTD line.
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04/18/2006
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Pirates hunting for eddies - this is effectively what we are doing with this instrument - looking for eddies that affect the surface temperature and we are driving the ship all over the place to find them. This photo shows Carlos Moffat, a post-doc at WHOI working with myself and Bob Weller, as he does the splicing of the line for the underway CTD (notice the needle in his mouth). This davit and winch for this instrument are what is shown in the photo. It allows us to do CTD profiles while the ship is steaming. The goal of the project, VOCALS-REX, is to understand the role of the upper ocean in the formation of some of the largest decks of stratocumulus clouds off the coast of Chile.
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"Hunting for eddies?this is effectively what we are doing with this instrument," said Fiammetta Straneo, a researcher at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. This month, Straneo's team is looking for eddies that affect sea surface temperature. "We are using satellite images to find their general location, and then driving the ship back and forth through the region to find their exact location," she said. Straneo is currently at sea with post-doctoral scholar Carlos Moffat, shown here splicing a line for their "eddy-hunting" instrument, called a CTD (for conductivity, temperature, and depth). The goal of their project is to understand the role of the upper ocean in the formation of some of the largest stratus clouds off the coast of Chile.
Photo by Fiammetta Straneo
© Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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