Measuring a remote ocean, or "How to do arctic research from Cape Cod"

How do you get data from a place that's hard to visit, and always on the move? A place where instruments, once sent out, might never come home? John Toole and Rick Krishfeld of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution describe how they use autonomous, ice-tethered profilers to study the Arctic Ocean and its response to climate change. Video provided courtesy of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution as part of the NSF-funded Polar Discovery project. Produced for Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears (http://beyondpenguins.nsdl.org).

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Science & Technology

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• arctic ocean polar
• ocean
• remote sensing