Summer seasonal glider mission within the context of the Permanent Observations Program at ESTOC site (European Station for Time Series in the Ocean, Canaries) surroundings, coordinated by PLOCAN.
After two weeks of continuous operation and over 160 nautical miles autonomously navigated in waters North of the archipelago, the glider P201 (unmanned underwater monitoring device) has been successfully recovered in the vicinity of the East coast of Gran Canaria on the 6th August 2013 by technical staff from the Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands (PLOCAN).
Physic and biogeochemical water-column parameters (temperature, conductivity, dissolved oxygen, chlorophyll, turbidity, etc...) have been continuously measured along the two weeks in depths close to 1000 m., resulting in total 125 dives which allowed to gather over half a million data from each of the measured variables.
The mission frames with the seasonal observing program that PLOCAN coordinates through initiatives and actions related to programs and projects both research and technological development at regional (Marine-Maritime Macaronesian Network, R3M) and international level, as well as through specific missions in this context, using different observing platforms both fixed and mobile as gliders in this case.
