Abstract: Temperature profiles were made, during a period of calm weather in early autumn, in the center of the subtropical gyre in the North Pacific with free-fall microstructure instruments as well as with commerical salinity-te ...

Abstract: The Cartesian diver is an autonomous velocity profiler capable of operating to 1 km depth in the ocean. It has a self-controlled buoyancy changer which is used to control the direction of profiling. The buoyancy changer ...

Abstract: Variability of near-surface Currents over a 20-Day period in a 15O km diameter region of the central North Pacific is described using vertical profiles from a current meter and the tracks of 25 drifting buoys. Energetic ...