The Undulating Oceanographic Recorder Mark 2: A New Ship-of-Industry Ocean Monitoring Instrument

Author

Aiken, James ; Wood, Grayson ; Jossi, Jack

Author_Institution

Inst. for Marine Environ. Res., Natural Environ. Res. Council, Plymouth, UK

fYear

1980

fDate

8-10 Sept. 1980

Firstpage

37

Lastpage

43

Abstract

The Undulating Oceanographic Recorder (UOR) Mark 2 has been designed and developed by the Institute for Marine Environmental Research (IMER). It is an automatic, instrumented towed vehicle which can be programmed to undulate between a minimum depth of 5 m and a selected maximum between 15 and 100 m with a selected undulation length between 0.8 km and 40 km. It collects continuous plankton samples while simultaneously making discrete measurements of temperature, pressure, salinity and in situ chlorophyll a. Results from a recent cruise off Chesapeake Bay are presented and the instrument is discussed in terms of its application to pollution monitoring.

Keywords

bathymetry; marine pollution; ocean temperature; oceanographic equipment; oceanographic regions; pollution measurement; pressure measurement; recorders; temperature measurement; Chesapeake Bay; Institute for Marine Environmental Research; automatic instrumented towed vehicle; continuous plankton sample; discrete measurement; pollution monitoring; pressure measurement; salinity measurement; ship-of-opportunity ocean monitoring instrument; temperature measurement; undulating oceanographic recorder; undulation length; Councils; Instruments; Marine vegetation; Marine vehicles; Monitoring; Oceans; Pollution measurement; Sea measurements; Sea surface; Temperature measurement;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

OCEANS '80

Conference_Location

Seattle, WA

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OCEANS.1980.1151427

Filename

1151427