| Installing and Recovering an Ice-Tethered Profiler |
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Anchored by a weight, a wire is lowered into the hole, 800 meters (0.5 miles) down. A package of sensors, called a profiler, travels up and down the wire each day, measuring seawater temperature, salinity, and oxygen content at depths between 7 and 750 meters (23 and 2,460 feet). (Chris Linder, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
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Posted: October 24, 2007
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