Initially developed for monitoring the performance of TOPEX/Poseidon and follow-on Jason legacy satellite altimeters, Corsica geodetic facilities that are located both at Senetosa Cape near Ajaccio have been to calibrate successive altimeters in an absolute sense. Since 1998, successful calibration process used most oceanographic altimeter missions has regularly updated terms situ instruments, ...

— Underwater acoustic networks are envisaged to be the enabling technology for oceanographic data collection, pollution monitoring, offshore exploration and tactical surveillance applications. Unique characteristics of underwater acoustic channels such as large propagation delays and high bit error rates pose a challenge to designing reliable and ef cient communication protocols. In this paper,...

Six years of oceanographic surveys of Alexandrium fundyense concentrations in the Gulf of Maine are combined with shellfish toxicity records from coastal monitoring stations to assess covariations of these quantities on seasonal to interannual time scales. Annual mean gulf-wide cell abundance varies by less than one order of magnitude during the time interval examined (1993–2002). Fluctuations ...

This paper reports the recent progress on mud volcanism data accumulation in the case of the Gulf of Cadiz area. The discovery of giant mud volcanoes, deep coral reefs, and gas hydrates in 1999, from the Guadalquivir Diapiric Ridge to the Larache Moroccan margin, launched a dynamic expansion of new projects (GeNesis, MoundForce, HERMES) and international oceanographic campaigns (R/V Sonne, Mari...

School of Marine Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China School for Marine Science and Technology, University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, New Bedford, MA 02744, USA Department of Physical Oceanogra hy, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA Biology Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA Department of Civil Engineering, Ins...