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ORIENTED RESEARCH :: PHYSICAL
MODELING :: EARTH
SYSTEM MODELING :: OBSERVING
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CBOS: This observing system has pioneered the use of realtime data streams for the Chesapeake Bay. Currently the system is being expanded to integrate other institutions and observations. (UMCES PI: Bill Boicourt) |
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| Estuarine and coastal circulation: HPL investigators use CTD measurements as well as towed instrument platforms that can be flown from the surface at any depth in the water column to take rapid high resolution measurements of the physical and optical properties of the water. This section of oxygen shows mixing associated with the Chesapeake Bay hydraulic control point. (UMCES PIs: Bill Boicourt, Larry Sanford) |
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Sediment and turbulence: New technologies for simultaneous observations of turbulence, turbidity, particle size, and particle sinking velocity using an integrated water column profiler, which we call the DIFIK are being developed at HPL. (UMCES PI: Larry Sanford) |
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Sensing: Satellite and aircraft based remote sensing gives us information about the ocean surface on large spatial scales. Using Ocean color measurements we recently discovered an echo phytoplankton bloom which was using recycled nitrogen from nitrogen fixation for a nutrient source. Aircraft based measurements over the Chesapeake Bay have revealed trends in surface phytoplankton biomass (UMCES PIs: Victoria Coles, Larry Harding) |
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