SQUID Team
ObjectivesThe SQUID (Sampling QUantitative Internal-wave Distributions) team will provide a globally distributed observing program for shear, energy flux, and mixing by internal waves. We will use profiling floats—measuring temperature, salinity, velocity, and turbulence—that will yield new insights into internal wave regimes and parameterizations, and that will provide direct and derived data products tailored for use by modeling groups for comparison and validation.
Top Level Tasks
Deploy 50 velocity and microstructure profiling floats (ElectroMagnetic Autonomous Profiling EXplorers; EM-APEX) globally over 3 years spanning the range of the dominant parameters that determine the internal wave environment.
Assemble past EM-APEX datasets into archived and shared resource for internal wave research.
Derive internal wave products from profiling float mixing & energy budgets, and for data assimilation models.
Develop operational data pathways from velocity and microstructure profile collection to operational modeling and archiving centers.
Use the merged and augmented profiling float measurement database to assess the relative roles of sources in generating and dissipating internal waves.
Team Members
Team News
IWR array mooring and CPIESs successfully recovered
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Spring SQUID deployments across ocean basins
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