• AUV-based acoustic observations of the distribution and patchiness of pelagic scattering layers during midnight sun 

      Geoffroy, Maxime; Cottier, Finlo Robert; Berge, Jørgen; Inall, Mark E. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2016-09-28)
      An autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) carrying 614 kHz RDI acoustic doppler current profilers (ADCPs) was deployed at four locations over the West Spitsbergen outer shelf in July 2010. The backscatter signal recorded by the ADCPs was extracted and analysed to investigate the vertical distribution and patchiness of pelagic organisms during midnight sun. At the northernmost locations (Norskebanken ...
    • Shelf/fjord exchange driven by coastal-trapped waves in the Arctic 

      Inall, Mark E.; Nilsen, Frank; Cottier, Finlo Robert; Daae, Ragnhild Lundmark (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2015-11-23)
      In this article, we show that the class of low frequency (subinertial) waves known as coastal-trapped waves (CTWs) are a significant agent of water volume exchange in a west Svalbard fjord, and by extension more widely along the west Svalbard and east Greenland margins where similar conditions prevail. We show that CTWs generated by weather systems passing across the sloping topography of the shelf ...