so was the name: RAFOS is SOFAR spelled backward. Listening for sound requires far less energy than transmitting it, so RAFOS floats are cheaper and longer...

A modern example of this type is the RAFOS float; historical versions include Swallow, ALACE, and SOFAR floats. http://www.oc.nps...

at that point. That technique was given the name of SOFAR backwards: RAFOS. RAFOS is defined in the 1962 edition of The American Practical Navigator among...

tropical Atlantic Ocean which collect meteorological and oceanographic data RAFOS float – Submersible device used to map ocean currents well below the surface...

fully deployed in the summer of 2014, consists of moorings, gliders and RAFOS floats spanning the subpolar North Atlantic from Labrador to Greenland to Scotland...

characterised by a slow, outward decrease in azimuthal velocities. RAFOS floats trapped in the core of the Lofoten Vortex revealed that the vortex centre...

1994 Henry Stommel Medal of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution RAFOS float Drifter (floating device) Ice rafting Charnock, H. (1997). "John Crossley...

research floats. Bower goes on research cruises to retrieve the floats and deploy equipment. Her group has deployed hundreds of RAFOS floats in the Arctic...

surviving. The helicopter's flotation system was deployed, allowing it to float, and it was towed onto a nearby beach. In July 2023, an Australian MRH-90...

experimental Wapitis. In 1931 he was sent to Argentina to demonstrate the Wapiti float plane but failed to secure any sales. He returned to England, took ten days...