pyRSKtools: Improved oceanographic data processing with Python

pyRSKtools is an open-source data processing toolkit for Python

About pyRSKtools pyRSKtools is RBR’s open source Python toolbox for reading, post-processing, visualizing, and exporting RBR logger data. Users may plot data as a time series or as depth profiles using tailored plotting utilities. In addition, you can easily plot time-depth heat maps to visualize transects or moored profiler data. A full suite of data post-processing functionality, such as methods … Read More about pyRSKtools: Improved oceanographic data processing with Python

RBR provides CTDs and sensors for the Argo program

Argo IFREMER diver - credit Olivier Dugornay

The Argo program is the largest ocean climate monitoring system in the world, providing continuous observations of key ocean parameters through a global array of autonomous profiling floats. In 2018, RBR joined the program’s pilot project to diversify the floats’ CTD sensor technology, which is crucial to avoiding single points of failure. RBR introduced the RBRargo3 C.T.D as a low-power, high-accuracy alternative that is … Read More about RBR provides CTDs and sensors for the Argo program

How to select the right CTD for your application

Nicole Trenholm holding a CTD

How are you planning on deploying your CTD? If your project requires a profiling CTD If your project requires a moored CTD If your project requires a CTD integration Physical considerations to take into account when choosing your CTD Desired deployment depth Adding non-CTD sensors Real-time data transfer Environmental factors Other considerations to take into account when choosing your CTD … Read More about How to select the right CTD for your application

How to select the right CTD [Webinar]

How to select the right CTD

Short on time? Skip ahead to learn: the first thing you should think about when selecting a CTD (2:00) why not all CTDs are ideal for the same application (7:25) important physical considerations when selecting a CTD (16:25) extra considerations when selecting a CTD  (18:43) more about RBR CTDs profiling (23:33) moored (26:43) OEM (float, glider, AUVs) (29:15) Questions and … Read More about How to select the right CTD [Webinar]

All about speed of sound in water – what it is, how it’s measured, and why we care

Speed of sound in water

Speed of sound in waterWhat is speed of sound in water and why do we measure it? Sound-speed in water is a quantification of how fast sounds travel in water. The speed of sound in water depends on temperature, salinity, and pressure, and is therefore not uniform throughout different water environments. In the oceans, the speed of sound varies between 1450m/s … Read More about All about speed of sound in water – what it is, how it’s measured, and why we care