<p style="margin-left:0cm; margin-right:0cm">The Protevs Swot 2018 campaign aimed to explore the South Balearic zone in early spring to observe the small scales of the oceanic mixed layer using high-resolution sampling devices.</p> <p style="margin-left:0cm; margin-right:0cm">The area was chosen because it was positioned below the SWOT satellite's planned swath in its validation/calibration period. In this sense, it is a precursor experiment of experiments for the year 2022 and as such exploratory of the scales that will be observable by this newly designed altimetry satellite.</p> <p style="margin-left:0cm; margin-right:0cm">A particular focus was placed on an anticyclonic structure in the southern Balearic Islands that is systematically detectable by altimetry but which appears to be an artifact.</p> <p style="margin-left:0cm; margin-right:0cm">These samplings were combined with fine analysis of the surface content of small phytoplankton by flow cytometry to study the shaping of the marine landscape by frontal physical processes.</p>
SHOM oceanographic cruise
<p style="text-align:justify">SHOM cruise with implementation of the MVP.</p>
Hydrography and physical oceanography cruise for the French Navy's hydrographic and oceanographic service (SHOM).
Beautemps-Beaupré cruise.
SHOM cruise
SHOM cruise between Lisbon and Toulon
SHOM cruise between Brest and Lisbon
SHOM cruise aboard the Pourquoi Pas?
SHOM cruise aboard the Pourquoi Pas?