New technologies for marine research: Five years of glider activities at IMEDEA;Nuevas tecnologías para la investigación marina: 5 años de actividades de gliders en el IMEDEA

Scientia Marina

Volumn 76, Issue SUPPL.1, 2012, Pages 261-270

  Ruiz, Simón ^a   Garau, Bartolomé ^b   Martínez Ledesma, Miguel ^a   Casas, Benjamín ^a   Pascual, Ananda ^a   Vizoso, Guillermo ^a   Bouffard, Jérôme ^a   Heslop, Emma ^a   Alvarez, Alberto ^a,c   Testor, Pierre ^d   Tintoré, Joaquín ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

^b SOCIB   (Spain)

^c NATO UNDERSEA RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

Author keywords

Autonomous underwater vehicles; Balearic Sea; Ocean observing system; Upper ocean mesoscale processes

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER VEHICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MARINE TECHNOLOGY; MESOSCALE MOTION; REMOTE SENSING; SENSOR; UPPER OCEAN;

BALEARIC SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA (WEST);

EID: 84865328683     PISSN: 02148358     EISSN: 18868134     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3989/scimar.03622.19L     Document Type: Article

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