Cruise Log

On the 18th of September a new endeavor to capture internal wave trains was carried out by HabWAVE’s team at the campaign’s fixed station. The last field work at this location was promising, since the “yo-yo” surveys showed what looked…
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Remote sensing imagery is a useful, complementary tool within HabWAVE, not only as a “near real time” information source for the cruise, but also and especially for in situ data interpretation. The main sensors analyzed that are able to provide…
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On the 16th of September HabWAVE’s team returned to the campaign’s fixed station, located at about 30 km offshore and at about 100 m depth, where a mooring with two ADCPs had been previously deployed (one upward measuring currents, one…
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On the 14th of September HabWAVE’s team were again at sea, this time to perform sampling and measurements along a zonal transect off Figueira da Foz. The field work consists in cross-shore vertical sections of temperature, salinity, turbidity, and Rosette…
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On the 12th of September HabWAVE’s team left Figueira da Foz’s port before dawn on board Instituto Hidrográfico’s NRP Auriga towards a previously established location, where a mooring was deployed earlier this week, at approximately 30 km offshore and about…
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An oceanographic cruise of approximately two weeks has just begun on board NRP Auriga of Instituto Hidrográfico within the framework of HabWAVE. The purpose of this campaign is to collect water and sediment samples, as well as to perform physical…
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