How do we plan to use them in
Mersea?
The first goal is the assessment of available
long-range glider technologies which meet MERSEA
requirements (reliability, long range/endurance at
sea, and the possibility to carry bio-geochemical
sensors). Later on, training and in-lab testing as
well as field mission program design will be
performed followed by field trials in near-coastal
and open-ocean environments (in the Mediterranean
Sea from the shore base of partner IMEDEA and in the
Atlantic ocean from the shore base of partner
Ifremer, respectively). During trials the entire
data system will be demonstrated, including
real-time transmission, quality control, and
integration and feeding to the MERSEA
data server. Glider usage will be optimized against
moored instruments (time-series sites W1M3A in the
Mediterranean Sea and PAP-CIS in the Atlantic Ocean),
for carrying out regional-scale deep ocean surveys,
and for detecting and quantifying meso-scale
variability. The impact of assimilating glider data
on numerical models will be also investigated. Finally,
a detailed system requirements and specification
document will be prepared, defining the needs and
capability of the Glider and Mission Management
Engine within the MERSEA context (e.g. review
real-time on-site data visualizations from modeling
and remote sensing).
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