Related Projects

AMT is an excellent platform for both national and international collaboration, with several high impact organisations and projects using both data and facilities.

 

NASA LogoNASA

A recent flyover was performed near the Azores by Nasa on the latest AMT cruise.

A Research Scanning Polarimeter (RSP) and a High Spectral Resolution Lidar-1 (HSRL-1) were on board and used with shipboard sampling from the cruise vessel to validate and improve the capability and reliability of the instruments.

 

Visit the NASA site to read more about the HSRL

MET Office Logo

Met office

Recent links with the UK Met Office have enabled AMT to deploy instrumental buoys, which transmit real time CTD data to the Met Office. Six standard Argo floats (measuring temperature, salinity and depth) were deployed during the latest cruise within the South Atlantic Gyre.

OAO MapLaboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche

Eight Bio-Argo floats were deployed during the latest AMT cruise on behalf of the French Laboratory for the remOcean project. Four were deployed in the North Atlantic Gyre and four in the South Atlantic Gyre.

 

The Bio-Argo floats also measure chlorophyll fluorescence, optical scattering, dissolved oxygen, nutrients and light. The data and location of the floats can be viewed online at the OAO (Oceanographic Autonomous Observations website.

 

Click here to view the interactive map with real-time data and location of each float

 

Select profiling floats as platform and Project remOcean :

 

OAO map float selection

Rutgers University logoRutgers University - Slocum Autonomous glider

A team at Rutgers University deployed an autonomous glider which followed areas similar to that of the latest AMT cruise.

SOCOM Glider


The glider travels through the ocean and transmits data (similar to that of a CTD device) back via satellites, it relies on GPS for location and mapping purposes. To view the data captured by the glider visit the Rutgers data portal.

Green seas logoGreen seas

The greenseas project aims to advance the quantitative knowledge of how planktonic marine ecosystems, including phytoplankton, bacterioplankton and zooplankton will respond to environmental and climatical change.

AMT has been used by the Greenseas project to assist with the development of a global plankton database. You can find out more about the project here.