Quizz the ocean seasons

bouée instrumentée - Photo : David Luquet

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

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The profiling float

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Animation of the biosphere obtained from the ocean color sensor SeaWiFS

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Colony of dinoflagellates Ceratium hexacanthum. In the video, one can observe the movement of the flagella. (Video : Sophie Marro)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium candelabrum var depressum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium praelongum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Large rosette sampler used in the "World Ocean Circulation Experiment". This rosette has 36 10-liter Niskin bottles, an acoustic pinger (lower left), an "LADCP" current profiler (yellow long tube at the center), a CTD (horizontal instrument at the bottom), and transmissometer (yellow short tube at the center). (Photo : L. Talley)

Rosette used to collect seawater samples during a scientific cruise in the South Pacific Ocean. During the austral summer, the amount of chlorophyll a is so low that the water becomes deep blue, almost purple. (Photo : Joséphine Ras)