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Automatic Profiling System for Underice Measurements

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The article is devoted to the development of an autonomous profiling system for measuring the aquatic environment under ice. The system moves up and down in the water column along a cable with a load at the lower end, which is lowered into a lane in the ice. The system carrier is designed for transporting an acoustic Doppler current profiler and a salinity, temperature, and pressure probe. The system will be useful for long-term measurements of vertical profiles of the current speed and marine environment parameters, as well as ice draft. The article describes in detail the structure and operation of the system. The hydraulic scheme of the carrier buoyancy system is presented.

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This research was performed in the framework of the assignment of Ministry of Science and Education of Russia (theme no. 0149-2019-0011) and supported in part by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (project no. 18-05-60124_Arktika).

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  1. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

    A. G. Ostrovskii, A. G. Zatsepin, D. A. Shvoev, S. V. Volkov & O. Yu. Kochetov

  2. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

    S. V. Volkov & V. M. Olshanskiy

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Ostrovskii, A.G., Zatsepin, A.G., Shvoev, D.A. et al. Automatic Profiling System for Underice Measurements. Oceanology 60, 861–868 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0001437020060089

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