Six free-drifting buoys tracked by the Nimbus 6 satellite were successfully launched by C-130 aircraft in a series of deployments during 1977-1979. The buoys were launched in Gulf Stream rings which had been identified with airborne XBT surveys and satellite infrared images. This is the first operational test of these air-deployable buoys.
Air deployment of satellite-tracked drifters
1980-05-20
Miscellaneous
No indication
English
Online Contents | 1993
Design of trawlers and drifters
Engineering Index Backfile | 1942
|Seaworthiness and stability of trawlers and drifters
Engineering Index Backfile | 1946
|Steam drifters: Tank and sea tests
Engineering Index Backfile | 1938
|Acoustic tracking of woodhead seabed drifters
TIBKAT | 1977
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