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Schematic showing PALACE float operations.

Schematic showing PALACE float operations.
Schematic showing PALACE float operations.
Schematic showing PALACE float operations.
Schematic showing PALACE float operations.
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Cook, John E.
Schematic showing PALACE float operations.
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06/01/1996
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Caption from Oceanus magazine, Vol. 39, No. 2, Pg. 7:
During a data collection and reporting cycle, a PALACE (Profiling Autonomous LAgrangian Circulation Explorer) float drifts with the current at a programmed depth, rises every week or two by inflating the external bladder (recording temperature and salinity profiles on the way up), spends a day at the surface transmitting data, then returns to drift at depth by deflating the bladder.
Illustration by Jack Cook
© Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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