Towards Autonomous Monitoring of Large Sinking Particles in the Southern Ocean Using High-Frequency Optical Backscattering

Violetta Paba1, Giorgio Dall'Olmo1, Angus Atkinson2, Robert J W Brewin3, Elaine Fileman2, Katrin Schmidt4 and Xuerong Sun5, (1)National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics (OGS), Trieste, Italy, (2)Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Plymouth, United Kingdom, (3)University of Exeter, Penryn, United Kingdom, (4)University of Plymouth, Plymouth, United Kingdom, (5)University of Exeter, Department of Earth and Environmental Science, Penryn, United Kingdom