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rafos

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rafos [′rā‚fōs]
(navigation)
A long-range marine navigation system in which the ship measures the arrival times of sound waves from explosive charges released at fixed shore stations at known times.


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Since the RAFOS float paths could only be tracked for two years, Lozier and her team also used a modeling program to simulate the launch and dispersal of more than 7,000 virtual "e-floats" from the same starting point.
Drifters such as Argo, RAFOS, and Spray (now being developed by Brechner Owens at WHOI and Russ Davis at Scripps Institution of Oceanography) are pre-programmed to deflate and inflate a bladder, which causes them to sink as much as 2,000 meters (6,500 feet) in the ocean and then rise again to the surface as they are carried along by currents.
Evidence of cross-frontal exchange processes in the Gulf Stream based on isopycnal RAFOS float data.
 
 
 
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