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© SHOM
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| Each year the Mercator-Coriolis Scientific Committee
establishes a deployement plan for the following year. The available floats
are distributed for "scientific surveys" or "opportunity
transits". The table and the map below show the coriolis deployement
activities forecast in 2004.
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| Scientifis
surveys |
P.
I. |
In
2004 |
Vessel |
Number
of floats |
|
FLOSTRAL |
R. Morrow CNRS |
January |
Marion Dufresne 2 |
15 |
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CIRENE |
J. Vialard LODYC |
October |
Marion Dufresne 2 |
26 |
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GOOD HOPE |
S. Speich Ifremer |
February |
S.A Agulhas |
20 |
| Opportunity
transits |
P.
I. |
In
2004 |
Vessel |
Number
of floats |
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OVIDE |
H. Mercier Ifremer |
June |
? |
depends
on needs |
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EGEE |
B. Bourles IRD |
Sept-Oct |
Suroît |
15 |
| Routine
deployments |
P.
I. |
In
2004 |
Vessel |
Number
of floats |
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Atlantique |
Y. Desaubies Ifremer |
2004 |
Opportunity |
depends on the needs & opportunities |
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Coriolis deployment plan for 2004
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Some figures
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|
 | Number of floats deployed since the beginning of the Coriolis
project: |
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124 |
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| Number of floats deployed in 2003: |
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31 |
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| Number of floats ready to be deployed: |
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15 |
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| Number of new floats planned in 2003: |
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80 |
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| Number of floats that should be depoyed in 2004: |
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61 minimum |
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