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For the\nEddy search we have used all of our resources. Six physical oceanographic\ninstruments are now used in turn. A moving vessel profiler is investigating the\nupper 150 meters, an underway CTD looks at temperature and salinity down to 400\nmeters, our microstructure inspects the turbulence of the first 200 meters,\ndrifters are being launched, gliders are released to the water and CTDs are\nscheduled to resolve the entire water column. At our daily science meeting we\nare then looking at the data to investigate Eddy\u2019s secrets. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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After a few\ndays of research we found out that he is sneaky. He hides from us under thinner\nsurface eddies. And as such he succeeded in running from us and we missed his\ncentre. But we are not fooled that easily. With an algorithm calculating Eddy\u2019s\nactual centre we changed our course accordingly and are now back on track! So\nfar we know that he is strong, that he is turbulent and that he causes unique stair\ncases. He is most likely Brazilian born and likes to dance in cyclonic motions.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But what\ndoes his inside look like? What makes him special? The interest in Eddy seams\nto have attracted other species. A spy in the shape of a cicada is hiding\nbehind the garbage cans. He does not know, that we have discovered him, yet,\nbut his distinct noise has betrayed him. During every CTD operation he peaks\nout of his hiding spot and listens in on the information we gather about Eddy.\nWe are not sure who he is working for, but we have asked our French companions\non the l\u2019Atalante to guard us now\u2026 <\/p>\n\n\n\n Eddy\u2019s secrets will be discovered soon! <\/p>\n\n\n\n Melina Mehlmann<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Melina Mehlmann The last couple of days have strongly been influenced by the search for \u2018Eddy\u2019. What does he look like? What are his dimensions? Where does he hide? For the Eddy search we have used all of our resources. Six physical oceanographic instruments are now used in turn. A moving vessel profiler is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":205,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-at-sea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/msm89\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/msm89\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/msm89\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/msm89\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/msm89\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/msm89\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/msm89\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions\/87"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/msm89\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/msm89\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/msm89\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Foto:](\"http:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/msm89\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/68\/2020\/02\/Picture3.jpg\")