Lab-O-Nord

Northern Research Infrastructure Inventory

Autonomous satellite-linked profiling floats

Description

23 floats – about half financed by Canadian credits, the other half financed by French credits. Autonomous platforms which drift with marine currents, rigged with bio-optical instruments having a range of 3 to 5 years. Maximum depth of operations: 2000 m. Each with T, S, NO3, O2, suspended particles, chlorophyll and organic fluorescence, PAR/irradiance, and ice detection.

Technical specifications

Lagrangian autonomous platform, AOP and IOP / biogeochemical profiles

Resource person

Luc Michaud
1045, Avenue de la Médecine, Pav. A.-Vachon, Room 3432
(418) 656-2131 ext. 5282
luc.michaud@arcticnet.ulaval.ca

ROOM OR LOCATION

AFFILIATION

  • Amundsen Science

MANUFACTURER/BRAND

  • Bio-Argo

IN OPERATION SINCE

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