Today had its ups and downs… 98 ups and downs to be precise: The VMP samples the water column like a yo-yo: Up and down… When releasing it, it falls down with a constant velocity and measures salinity, turbulent mixing, and many other variables. Then, we recover it with a motorized deep-sea fishing reel. One cast takes about 3min which allows great spatial resolution. Check out our salinity transact below.
intrusion (yellow colored sections) , and captured the intrusion’s nose on
the way out. In the north you see colder and fresher shelf water. The
intrusion moves northward by “sneaking” into a density gap between two
different water layers.