{"id":677,"date":"2016-04-20T14:25:20","date_gmt":"2016-04-20T18:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/?p=677"},"modified":"2016-05-20T15:29:22","modified_gmt":"2016-05-20T19:29:22","slug":"laser-recap-and-initial-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/laser-recap-and-initial-results\/","title":{"rendered":"LASER recap and initial results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The CARTHE team spent years planning for LASER (LAgrangian Submesoscale ExpeRiment), 1 month at sea, and will analyze and publish results for the next few\u00a0years. \u00a0This was by far the largest experiment of its kind ever conducted. \u00a0The team is exhausted but have recovered enough from the taxing time at sea to begin looking forward. \u00a0They are rejuvenated by the data that is coming in. \u00a0We have collected well over 10 million data points from our GPS-equipped biodegradable drifters alone! \u00a0As resulting articles are published, we will share those on our website:\u00a0http:\/\/carthe.org\/publications\/.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Using two research vessels, three planes, and cutting-edge technology, the LASER team acquired troves of ocean data from hundreds of survey miles; 1,000 biodegradable drifters; 8,000 high-resolution photos; 10,000 biodegradable drift cards; and 500,000 infrared images. This monumental effort is already paying off big dividends with nearly ten million data transmissions to date, providing information that prediction models can use now.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/gulfresearchinitiative.org\/laser-focus-advances-knowledge-gulf-mexico-water-moves\/\">Read the full summary of LASER by the GoMRI communications team here<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Dr. Helga Huntley, CARTHE co-PI at University of Delaware, also shared a nice summary of LASER in the following video:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Yy2T6XbZq-Y\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div id=\"attachment_678\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-678\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-678 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/CARTHE_for_AVISO-WEB-1024x748.jpg\" alt=\"CARTHE_for_AVISO-WEB\" width=\"690\" height=\"504\" srcset=\"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/CARTHE_for_AVISO-WEB.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/CARTHE_for_AVISO-WEB-300x219.jpg 300w, http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/CARTHE_for_AVISO-WEB-768x561.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 690px) 100vw, 690px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-678\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">CARTHE drifter trajectories in the Gulf of Mexico superimposed on AVISO surface currents. Red squares mark drifters positions on 9 March 2016 and the tails are 14 days long. (Credit: Edward Ryan and Tamay Ozgokmen from the University of Miami)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CARTHE team spent years planning for LASER (LAgrangian Submesoscale ExpeRiment), 1 month at sea, and will analyze and publish results for the next few\u00a0years. \u00a0This was by far the <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/laser-recap-and-initial-results\/\">Continue Reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":678,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=677"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":694,"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677\/revisions\/694"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}