Lab-O-Nord

Northern Research Infrastructure Inventory

Profiling float sensors (CTD SBE41)

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.

Technical specifications

Lagrangian autonomous platform, AOP and IOP / biogeochemical profiles

Resource person

Guislain Bécu
Pavillon Alexandre-Vachon, 1045, av. de la Médecine, local 2064
418 656 2131, poste 4880
guislain.becu@takuvik.ulaval.ca

Conditions of use

No use by third parties, pilots are associated with the submarine

ROOM OR LOCATION

AFFILIATION

  • Québec Océan

MANUFACTURER/BRAND

  • Sea-Bird Scientific

MODEL

  • CTD SBE41

IN OPERATION SINCE

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