Surface water monitoring system installed on board the icebreaker Shirase

• Main Authors: Mitsuo Fukuchi, Hiroshi Hattori
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1987
• Subjects: Antarctic; Antarctic Ocean; Posi; The Antarctic; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.486.6979; http://polaris.nipr.ac.jp/~penguin/polarbiosci/issues/pdf/1987-Fukuchi.pdf

Abstract: A surface water monitoring system was designed and installed on board the icebreaker SHIRASE. The system consists of sensors unit, navigation information terminal and control unit. Water pumped up from an intake of hull (8 m depth) is led into the sensors unit so as to measure flow rate of...