The second leg of the FaSt-SWOT campaign started on Sunday 7th May. Researchers went back to the same area sampled during FaSt-SWOT1. Despite heavy weather, they were able to identify a cold filament from the small eddy identified two weeks before.
FaSt-SWOT 1, the first leg of the FaSt-SWOT campaign, successfully ended on Saturday 29th April. Thanks to the integration of multiple sampling platforms (continuous MVP, ADCP, TSG, 12 CTDs, 25 drifters, gopros cameras for macroplastic detection) researchers were able to detect a small scale eddy in the zone north-west of Mallorca.
The R/V SOCIB left on April 25th from Mallorca for the first expedition of the FaSt-SWOT campaign. It will be cruising on the Northern waters of the island, collecting data with a wide variety of instruments including drift buoys, rosette samplers and buoys.
Postdoctoral researcher focusing on in situ and satellite ocean observations to understand mesoscale and submesoscale dynamics as well as the inference of vertical motions and their impact on marine ecosystems.
A new Jupyter Notebook to design sampling strategy using a towed vehicle such as MVP, uCTD and Seasoar has been released by Bàrbara Barceló-Llull (IMEDEA, Spain) and Elisabet Verger-Miralles (UIB-IMEDEA, Spain).
How to optimize the design of in situ experiments aimed at reconstructing fine-scale ocean currents? Bàrbara Barceló-Llull and Ananda Pascual developed a set of simulations to evaluate different sampling strategies and their impact on the reconstruction of fine-scale sea level and surface ocean velocities.
A one and a half postdoctoral position is open in the Oceanography and Climate Change Department at IMEDEA (CSIC-UIB) to join the team working at the FaSt-SWOT campaign.
The FaSt-SWOT campaign will focus on the role of fine scales in horizontal and vertical exchange in the upper ocean.