Instrument: Autonomous Behaving Lagrangian Explorer

Acronym: ABLE

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Description

The Autonomous Behaving Lagrangian Explorer (ABLE), designed by Tom Wolcott, is a biomimetic robotic drifter that senses in situ environmental stimuli (e.g., variations in PAR, pressure, salinity, or temperature) and can be programmed to respond to these cues with vertical migration behavior like that of the planktonic organism of interest.

Datasets (3)

Dataset Name	PI-Supplied Description	PI-Supplied Name
Autonomous Behaving Lagrangian Explorer (ABLE) output for 5 taxonomic groups examined from the R/V Cape Horn in the upwelling region of the west coast of California, USA in August 2015		ABLE
Subsurface data from ABLE deployments in the upwelling region of the west coast of northern California from 2016-2018		ABLE
Surface data from ABLE deployments in the upwelling region of the west coast of northern California from 2016-2018		ABLE