Drifters and Particle tracking

Charles Seaton

Uses of drifters and particle tracking

• Search and Rescue: SAROPS

• Oil Spills: GNOME (animation)

• Science: – Where does the water go? – Way to measure data at sea for extended

periods of time.

• Planning: Where will the drifter go?

Particle tracking in the model• Glider rescue:

http://www.stccmop.org/news/2010/modeling-technology-supports-glider-rescue

• Glider rescue animation: http://www.stccmop.org/~pturner/glider-ptrack2.avi

• Particle cloud animation: http://www.stccmop.org/~pturner/drogs3.avi

• Particle tracking in Southern California: http://ourocean.jpl.nasa.gov/SCB/

• Particle tracking in CMOP model coming soon…

Drifter ProgramsCMOP drifters in model context: CMOP MATE Drifters (under development): http://core02.stccmop.org/datamart/observation_network/driftermissions

ARGO Floats: http://www.argo.ucsd.edu/

Global Drifters (in google maps)

Global drifters: http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/phod/dac/dac_animations.php

Southern California: http://www.icess.ucsb.edu/drifter/deployments/index.php

http://www.stccmop.org/corie/cruise_support?year=2008&month=09&day=01&time=00%3A15&durationunits=days&duration=30&rtype=14&var=salt_surface&velvar=none&cutoff=5&zsize=10&zoomto=zoom&map.x=325&map.y=247&map=image&drifter=on&drifterid=111&backgrounds=None&marky=&markx=&llformat=DDMM&extent=-127.988651002+43.2341+-121.499448998+49.1323&image=%2Fscripts%2Ftmp%2F4c3e0ff1_3eb8_3.PNG&tool=zoomin&mapwidth=550&mapheight=500

Ideas for drifters• Message on an orange:

http://www.une.edu/news/2008/orangedrifters08.cfm

• Dr. Charles Tilburg http://faculty.une.edu/cas/ctilburg/research/index.htm

• Message in a bottle: 10-20% recovery rate! But you only get start and endpoint.

• Rubber duckies: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/07/31/eveningnews/main566138.shtml

• MATE project: http://coseenow.net/mate/• North East Fisheries Science Center:

http://www.nefsc.noaa.gov/epd/ocean/MainPage/lob/driftdesign.html

• Gulf of Maine drifters: http://gisweb.wh.whoi.edu/cgi-bin/ioos/drift/index.html(both visualizations and descriptions of how to make inexpensive drifters)

• Gulf of Maine River Plumes and HABs: http://plankt.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/25/9/1131

• Merrimack River Plume research: http://www.smast.umassd.edu/CEFM/mermade.htm