Data from the Sea Of Japan using the WHOI BathyPhotometer. The dotted line shows the path of the Seasoar
Data from the Sea Of Japan using the WHOI BathyPhotometer. The dotted line shows the path of the Seasoar
The WHOI BathyPhotometer is a compact solid state instrument with a digital
output.
Data from a recent cruise off the coast of California shows a time series
from five hourly files for smoothed
pressure
(9-point running mean, pressure in dbar) and base 10 logarithm of
bioluminescence . A
subset
from hour 6 provides a more detailed view of filtered and unfiltered
pressure and bioluminescence.
Two consecutive night time
crossings of the Polar Front during
our recent cruise in the Sea of Japan/East Sea indicate a frontal
signature in bioluminescence, with (in this case) higher values
in warmer waters to the south of the front.
The files can also be obtained as jpeg and postscript files
from the anonymous ftp site matisse.whoi.edu, directory pub/biol.
Questions should be directed to:
Paul Fucile
, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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