{"id":822,"date":"2017-04-17T21:38:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-18T01:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/?p=822"},"modified":"2017-04-19T23:05:02","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T03:05:02","slug":"making-a-splash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/making-a-splash\/","title":{"rendered":"Making a SPLASH"},"content":{"rendered":"

After months of planning, preparation, and testing, the CARTHE<\/a> team has\u00a0set off for the Gulf of Mexico to conduct another large scale experiment. \u00a0The Submesoscale Pathways and Lagrangian
\nAnalysis on the SHelf (SPLASH) experiment will take place west of the Mississippi River, south of Grand Isle, Louisiana, and will examine how ocean currents transport oil and other particles across the shelf and onto shore,\u00a0bridging the gap between\u00a0the offshore observations from GLAD<\/a> and LASER<\/a> and the coastal observations from\u00a0SCOPE<\/a>.\"\"<\/p>\n

The overarching scientific objectives for SPLASH\u00a0are to: (a) determine the cross-shelf\u00a0transport of surface material (eg. oil) from the shelf break to the shore; (b) measure surface transport\u00a0processes in sufficient detail to address the physical processes and guide dynamical models; (c)\u00a0obtain unique air-sea interaction fluxes under the influence of small scale horizontal gradients in\u00a0wind, waves, and density, and (d) numerically predict the key processes important for oil transport.<\/p>\n

\"\"Survey area\u00a0west of the Mississippi River\u00a0Delta (MRD) within the Louisiana Bight.<\/em><\/p>\n

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SPLASH is led by CARTHE co-PI Jeroen Molemaker, a senior researcher at UCLA in physical oceanography, who additionally holds a position of international chair of excellence at the University of Brest, France. His specialty is the dynamics of ocean physics at sub-mesoscales. Small scale processes in oceanography present a particular challenge as they are diffi\"\"cult to observe, are often beyond the resolving power of satellite observing platforms and need extremely high resolution computer models to be accurately represented. In 2011 and 2013 he co-designed SUBEX, the precursor of the LASER and SPLASH experiment, which involved the coordinated observations of multiple aircraft, boat observations and drifter deployments. He is the chief scientist of SPLASH and is very excited to be part of both the CARTHE experiments, which present a rare opportunity to do observations that involve a large number of uniquely qualified scientist from a wide range of top research institutes in the country. Already, the LASER experiment\u00a0that took place in the winter of 2016 is providing us with new insights in transport phenomena at small scales at the ocean surface and we expect to push the boundaries of knowledge\u00a0even further in SPLASH.<\/div>\n
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Stay tuned for more updates as the experiment gets underway<\/div>\n
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Grand Isle, LA (home base) with Gulf of Mexico in the background. Taken by our hard working drone team!<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After months of planning, preparation, and testing, the CARTHE team has\u00a0set off for the Gulf of Mexico to conduct another large scale experiment. \u00a0The Submesoscale Pathways and Lagrangian Analysis on Continue Reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":813,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,59],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822"}],"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=822"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":850,"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822\/revisions\/850"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}