www.ocean.washington.edu/research/gfd/seagliders-faroes/index.html


Seagliders: University of Washington program
on the Iceland-Faroe Ridge, Faroe-Bank Channel and Faroe Shetland Channel

supported by National Science Foundation
In collaboration with
Fisheries Research Laboratory, Faroe Islands
Geophysical Institute and Bjerknes Center for Climate Research, University of Bergen, Norway

contact: Charlie Eriksen (eriksen@u.washington.edu), Peter Rhines (rhines@ocean.washington.edu)


1539 chart by Olaus Magnus showing Iceland-Faroes frontal eddies (HT Rossby 2004), and images of the Faroe Islands, site of recent Seaglider deployments.

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• Recent locations/velocities
• 2006 launches-early data in FBC (Faroe-Bank Channel)
  
• Satellite altimetry
  
• IFR (Iceland-Faroe Ridge) data 2006-2008
  
• 2008 FBC moorings and gliders
  
• Mauritzen, Price, Sanford et al figures from FBC cruise, 2000 (ref: Deep-Sea Res 2005)
  
• Seaglider real-time data site (look for gliders 005, 016 and 102)
  
• More info on the UW/APL Seaglider programs here and here and papers and powerpoint lectures here.
  
• Background literature relating to the subpolar Atlantic and to Seaglider technology.
• Remote sensing data...anyone volunteer to collect this and put it up??

Note, the real-time Seaglider data is linked just above; this page will be updated as often as possible, yet not daily.

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Click to enlarge:ETOPO-2 topography; Iceland is red, upper left. The northern tip of Scotland appears at right. The Shetland Islands are small bumps at (60N, 1W). The glider surface tracks are shown overlying the Iceland Faroe Ridge and the Faroe-Shetland Channel. The 3 Seagliders were launched above the sill of the Faroe Bank Channel, just south of the Faroes (which are seen at 62N). SG016 was recovered on 3 i 2006 by the Faroese Coast Guard.

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Click to enlarge: Faroe-Bank Channel overflow from Norwegian Sea to the Atlantic (Mauritzen et al. Deep-Sea Res 2005). See below for full collection of figures.

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Other Seaglider papers and powerpoints at www.ocean.washington.edu/research/gfd/papers-rhines.html



P.B. Rhines