{"id":70,"date":"2024-07-18T11:05:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-18T09:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/msm130\/?p=70"},"modified":"2024-07-17T14:42:04","modified_gmt":"2024-07-17T12:42:04","slug":"song-of-the-water-mass-sirens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/msm130\/2024\/07\/18\/song-of-the-water-mass-sirens\/","title":{"rendered":"Song of the water mass sirens"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Physical Oceanography team and deck crew oversee a CTD deployment adjacent to a glacier outflow.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Who transcends so late through night and sea?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s the CTD to collect water for thee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It holds a SUNA, tight on its frame;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SUNA reveals a nutrient, \u2018nitrate\u2019 is the name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Altimeter, why do you hide your face in fear?\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Watch out CTD, the ground will soon appear!\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018The fjord\u2019s ground with its sediments from ashore?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The multibeam says it\u2019s a hundred meter more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Backscatter, sweet child, look over here,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m Greenland glacier water, I might disappear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was heavily diluted when entering the sea,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Give your science meaning by sampling me.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018CTD, CTD, stop! Let\u2019s hit the brakes!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Don\u2019t you hear what promises the glacial plume makes?\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Stay calm and stay focused, bud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019ll collect a bottle here on our way up.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Good to see you again, dear thermosalinograph,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m salty, filling the deeper water column half.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I snuck into the fjord, can melt ice, am warmer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who am I? I am\u2026 Atlantic Water!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018CTD, CTD, can you not see,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Atlantic Water is calling for me!\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Atlantic Water? Below the pycnocline\u2019s reign?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bottom here! Bottle closed! And up again.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Welcome back to light, conductivity meter!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Only you reveal my true nature.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018CTD, CTD, the surface! Cold, fresh, and free.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Surface Melt Water is dazzling me!\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The winch is pulling firmly, lifting the rosette,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCTD back on deck\u201d says the radio handset.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In suspense, the team waits for the freshwater hose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Relief! All Niskin bottles did properly close.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lukas Taenzer (PO\/CTD Team)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After \u201cDer Erlk\u00f6nig\u201d by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (with a slightly more positive ending than the original)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Who transcends so late through night and sea? It\u2019s the CTD to collect water for thee. It holds a SUNA, tight on its frame; SUNA reveals a nutrient, \u2018nitrate\u2019 is the name. \u2018Altimeter, why do you hide your face in fear?\u2019 \u2018Watch out CTD, the ground will soon appear!\u2019 \u2018The fjord\u2019s ground with its sediments […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-at-sea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/msm130\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/msm130\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/msm130\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/msm130\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/msm130\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/msm130\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/msm130\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions\/80"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/msm130\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/msm130\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/msm130\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}