Project Coordination
Dr. Ute Weber, UFZ
phone: 0341 235 482270
ute.weber@ufz.de
News
MOSES hunts Ocean
Eddies. Researchers from the GEOMAR
Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel and the Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht are
now on the way to investigate extremely low-oxygen eddies in the tropical
Atlantic until Christmas. Autonomous devices are already scouting the ocean around
the Cape Verde Islands for eddies suitable for study. On 23 November, the
research vessel METEOR left the port of Mindelo / Cape Verde for the detected
eddies. A research aircraft will support the search from the air.
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Ongoing Activities
The first Ocean Eddies test campaign 2019 started at the Cape Verde archipelago off West
Africa, an ocean region of key climatic, oceanographic and
biogeochemical relevance with enhanced eddy activity. MOSES equipment will be used to investigate characteristic single eddies as distinct events in comparison to long-term trends.
