SIO SWOT / NOPP moorings S1-S4 are in the water, telemetering, and functioning as designed! The weather held off this morning, allowing us to get a relatively early and efficient start. Although the weather deteriorated to some extent over the course of the day, we were able to safely deploy the final mooring less than 100 yards from the target. The SIO SWOT NOPP real-time data can be found here: https://mooring.ucsd.edu/swot2/ The Wirewalker profiler performance has been excellent at all moorings since deployment, averaging 500 m round trips every 30 … Read More
November 2022 Kickoff Meeting
We are thrilled to have participated in the 2-day Kickoff meeting Nov 3 & 4, 2023 for the NOPP-Global Internal Waves. Representatives from all 6 groups were in attendance at Scripps Institution of Oceanography for the meeting. The Kickoff included breakout groups focussing on zeroing in on the various tasks that we are going to accomplish during this NOPP. We were lucky to include some valuable additional speakers to give us more information about: SMODE (Tom Farrar, WHOI), SWOT cal/val (Jinbo Wang, JPL), NSF-funded BLT (Bethan Wynne-Cattanach, SIO), ONR-funded TFO … Read More