A Rosette for Sampling Ice-Covered Water

The Arctic Ocean is changing rapidly as Earth's climate warms. To document and understand these changing ocean conditions, we developed a rosette that collects high-quality oceanographic data and is deployed from an aircraft through a 30.5 cm diameter hole drilled in the ice (Figure 1). The ros...

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Main Authors: William M. Smethie Jr., Dale Chayes, Richard Perry, Peter Schlosser, Ronny Friedrich
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Oceanography Society 2011-09-01
Series:Oceanography
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Online Access:http://tos.org/oceanography/archive/24-3_smethie.pdf