Integrated Study of the Dynamics of the Kuroshio Intrusion and Effects on Acoustic Propagation

Abstract

The Quantifying, Predicting and Exploiting Uncertainty (QPE) program glider component employed four Seagliders operating over a span of four months to sample the Kuroshio Current as it intruded onto the shelf/slope region of the East China Sea. Glider occupied repeated sections across the Kuroshio while being carried eastward, downstream. At roughly 123 deg 30' E, gliders left the Kuroshio, navigating southward out of the strong flow, and then making their way west to reinsert into the boundary flow at 122 deg 30' E. Glider data were used to initialize the MIT-MSEAS model for runs that could then be evaluated against synoptic surveys collected using a ship-based towed, undulating profiler.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 03, 2018
Accession Number
AD1048652

Entities

People

  • Craig Lee

Organizations

  • University of Washington

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acoustic Propagation
  • Continental Shelves
  • Continental Slopes
  • East China Sea
  • Engineering
  • High Resolution
  • Measurement
  • Ocean Currents
  • Oceanography
  • Oceans
  • Physics
  • Physics Laboratories
  • Remote Sensing
  • Ridges
  • Sea Surface Temperature
  • Surface Temperature
  • Topography

Readers

  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers
  • Oceanography.

Technology Areas

  • Autonomy