An Autonomous Mobile Platform for Underway Surface Carbon Measurements in Open-Ocean and Coastal Waters
Abstract
The NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory and Liquid Robotics, Inc., are collaborating to address an urgent need for long-term in-situ observation of carbon parameters over broad swathes of the global coastal and open ocean by integrating a suite of state-of-the-art pCO2, pH, and CTD sensors onto a Wave Glider wave-propelled autonomous marine vehicle (AMV). The resulting Biogeochemical Wave Glider will be capable both of acting as a long-duration (up to 1 year) "virtual mooring" to augment the existing sparse collection of moored carbon science sensors and of conducting autonomous, basin-scale ocean transits to provide new insight into the spatial variability of carbon uptake and associated parameters.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jun 01, 2010
- Accession Number
- ADA527419
Entities
People
- Christian Meinig
- Christopher L. Sabine
- Justin Manley
- Noah Lawrence-slavas
- Roger Hine
- Scott Willcox
- Tim Richardson
Organizations
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration