📌 The second leg of #SWOTALIS has successfully come to an end! Under the rising sun and calm sea conditions researchers we arrived back in Nouméa, New Caledonia.

And what a mission it has been, a marathon of CTDs and VMPs, and biological samples: 304 CTDs, 225 VMPs, 253 incubated bottles, 422 nutrient samples, and 218 chlorophyll samples.

We had a great time with an amazing team aboard R/V Antea. Big thank you to the crew and their engagement and dedication throughout the last 2 weeks!

📌#SWOTALIS "It's a lucky day for marine microbiologists and phytoplankton lovers aboard R/V Antea: we finally saw our subject of study without any fancy microscope but with our own eyes!" say @CecileCarpaneto
and Martine Rodier from @MIOceanologie

👉http://bit.ly/3nNy46Z

📌 Internal tides South of New Caledonia are among the most energetic in the global ocean. #SWOTALIS' researchers are taking measures to estimate how much energy they dissipate while they propagate in the ocean interior.

By Clément Vic👉 https://bit.ly/434R0hI

📌#SWOTALIS Preliminary data confirm dominance of internal tides as found in models and raise questions to what extent #SWOT is able to observe meso& submesoscale dynamics in areas of strong internal tide signature such as S New Caledonia

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https://bit.ly/3lT0qfO

#TheNewWaveOfOceanographers 🌊🌊🌊

Arne Bendinger @arnebca
is a PhD student interested in the mesoscale to submesoscale eddy field and their interaction with the large-scale flow and submesoscale processes in the #SWOTALIS campaign in New Caledonia

https://www.swot-adac.org/news/the-new-wave-of-oceanographers-arne-bendinger/