A CTD after it has been deployed – ready to be sampled by scientists. Each bottle/Niskin has been closed at a specific depth. Credit: Joline Lalime.

COOKIES Blog #7 – Global circulation and the humble CTD

Global circulation and the humble CTD By Izzy White, University of Southampton (England) and Joline Lalime, Sea2SchoolAU The world has five ocean basins: Pacific, Atlantic, Arctic, Indian, and Southern with the Atlantic and Pacific basins divided again into Northern and Southern parts. Figure 1: Diagram of the major ocean basins and their gyres. Source: https://oceaninfo.com/list/ocean-currents/ […]

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