Investigating Flow Features Near Abrupt Topography in the Mariana Basin

Abstract

The long term goals of this project are to obtain and interpret new field data on pertinent flow features that arise due the North Equatorial Current (NEC) and/or the North Equatorial Counter Current (NECC) encountering the Mariana Ridge system in the Mariana Basin.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2015
Accession Number
AD1014405

Entities

People

  • Thomas Peacock

Organizations

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Mechanical Engineering

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Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Data Sets
  • Deployment
  • Engineering
  • Landforms
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Oceanography
  • Oceans
  • Pacific Ocean
  • Physical Oceanography
  • Rhode Island
  • Ridges
  • Sonar
  • Topography

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