At the mouth of Patos Lagoon on the southern Brazilian coast — one of the largest coastal lagoons in the world — a three-day field survey produced 79,387 simultaneous determinations of suspended matter and organic content. That density of measurement resolved the fine internal structure and short-term variability of a sediment-carrying coastal plume, detail that point sampling and satellite imagery cannot reach.
The campaign, conducted with collaborators including Brazil’s Universidade Federal do Rio Grande (FURG), was published in Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science (2018).