ATOMS project - Achievements
Sea Trials
1. INTIFANTE'00 sea trial
The INTIFANTE'00 took place from 9 to 29 October 2000 in a shallow
water
zone west of Tróia Peninsula, near Setúbal, Portugal (see
INTIFANTE'00 Sea Trial )
2. ATOMS'02 Engineering Test
An Eng. test sea trial of one day took place off the port of Lisbon on
25
September 2002 with the objective of testing the new remote digital
acquisition
system (RDAS) with the ULVA buoy and array. The buoy on-board PC system
was
tested together with the wireless lan radio up to 18 km distance
between
the buoy and the NRP Andromeda.
3. ATOMS'04 sea trial
A full scale sea trial off the Cape São Vicente tooke place on
October 22 - 26, 2004 involving the NRP D. Carlos I research vessel
(see ATOMS'04 Test Plan here). Due
to adverse weather conditions only environmental and chemical data
could be gathered. This included CTD, ADCP and water samples. During
that period a later summer filament was present in the area as it can
be seen in the SST picture of day 22 Oct (below) and then on the
measured CTD data on day Oct 24.
SST data 22/10/04 10:22 GMT
Measured CTD data on 24/10/04
Reports
Project reports for year 1 [Oct 01], year 2 [Oct 02], year 3 [Oct 03]
and year 4 [Dec 04].
Workshops
Workshop INTIFANTE'00 - May 10-11, 2001
A workshop for presentation of the INTIFANTE'00 data set and
preliminary
results was held at SiPLAB, University of Algarve during May 2001.
Attendees:
A. Pascoal and J.P. Gomes (IST), S.M. Jesus, O. Rodríguez, A.
Silva
and C. Soares (UALg), J. Onofre e J. Beja (IH) and P. Picco (ENEA) (see
the program for more details).
last update: January 31, 2005