Patent ID: 7040157

Claim:
A method for dynamically monitoring at least one parameter of interest in a liquid environment using a hydrological probe which is attached to a cable mounted on a spool of a winching system, comprising: controllably unwinding a quantity of cable to lower a hydrological probe into a liquid environment at a series of increasing incremental distances away from the surface of the liquid; obtaining first data measurements for at least one selected parameter of interest in the liquid environment at the selected distances; subsequently controllably unwinding a quantity of cable to lower a hydrological probe into the liquid environment at the series of increasing incremental distances away from the surface of the liquid; obtaining second data measurements forte at least one selected parameter of interest in the liquid environment at the selected distances after the first data measurements are obtained; and monitoring the liquid environment to generate a time-dependent liquid profile of the at least one parameter of interest based on the first and second data measurements, wherein said first and second obtaining steps include taking a reading at the surface of the liquid in variable height liquid environments.