In-situ sinking speed measurements of marine snow aggregates acquired with a settling chamber mounted to the Cherokee ROV

OCEANS '09 IEEE Bremen: Balancing Technology with Future Needs

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Nowald, N ^a   Fischer, G ^a   Ratmeyer, V ^a   Iversen, M ^a   Reuter, C ^a   Wefer, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLIMATED LIGHT; DATA SETS; GLOBAL CARBON CYCLE; GLOBAL SYSTEMS; IN-SITU; IN-SITU MEASUREMENT; INFINITE NUMBERS; MARINE SNOW; MASS FLUX; MEAN VALUES; OCEAN SURFACES; PARTICLE POPULATION; PARTICLE PROFILE; PARTICLE SETTLING; PARTICULATE MATTER; PLEXIGLAS; SAMPLE VOLUME; SETTLING CHAMBERS; SETTLING SPEED; SETTLING VELOCITY; SPEED MEASUREMENT; STILL-IMAGE CAMERAS; WATER COLUMNS; WATER DEPTH;

AGGREGATES; CARBON DIOXIDE; LIGHT; LIGHT SOURCES; OCEANOGRAPHY; REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLES; SNOW; SPEED REGULATORS; SURFACE WATERS;

SPEED;

EID: 71249092924     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/OCEANSE.2009.5278186     Document Type: Conference Paper

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