Expedition to the Seven Islands, Svalbard
In cooperation with the University Centre in Svalbard, UNIS, two LoTUS buoys were deployed on August 4, 2016, close to the Ross Island/Seven Islands in the Barents Sea, at 80N 20E and 80N 21 E, respectively. |
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The 7 Islands Expedition has moved south one degree of latitude and is now at 79 deg North in Kongsfjorden. On the way south, we got to enjoy watching a humpback whale very close to us.
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In cooperation with the University Centre in Svalbard, UNIS, two LoTUS buoys were deployed on August 4, 2016, close to the Ross Island/Seven Islands in the Barents Sea, at 80N 20E and 80N 21 E, respectively. The buoys are developed at KTH by Jakob Kuttenkeuler and his group and will measure water temperature at 10 m above the seafloor at their respective locations every 15 minutes until November 2018, when they will surface and transmit the temperature timeseries measured. The LoTUS instruments were deployed during an extensive geophysical (multibeam) survey of the seafloor around the Seven Islands. More LoTUS buoys are to be deployed in the coming two weeks in Kongsfjorden and Isfjorden, western Svalbard. Continuous longterm measurements of (changes in) water temperatures close to calving glacier fronts will give important information on the ocean forcing on calving Arctic tidewater glaciers. Expedition participants are: Maria Laidla (MSc student) from the Department of Physical Geograoy at Stockholm University, Riko Noormets from the Department of Arctic Geology, UNIS and Nina Kirchner from the Bolin Centre for Climate Research and Department of Physical Geography at Stockholm University. |
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