The Barny Program: Fourteen Years of NURC-NRL Collaboration
Abstract
Shallow ocean environments, with their rapid variability, short spatial scales and often intense fishing,pose a special challenge for physical oceanographic study. Since 1995, a series of collaborative programsbetween NURC and the US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) have addressed this issue. That effort hasresulted in an improved capability for measurement and interpretation in water depths to 200 m, on spatialscales from hundreds of meters to hundreds of km, and on temporal scales from tidal to annual. Here wereport on two aspects of this work: first, the technologies which have enabled progress in data collectionand interpretation; and second, a summary of six major field programs, conducted mostly through a seriesof Joint Research Programs between NURC and NRL, in which those technologies have been brought tobear. Taken altogether, an effective, highly mobile and affordable approach for studying ocean shallowsis demonstrated.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- May 01, 2009
- Accession Number
- AD1118198
Entities
People
- Ewa Jarosz
- Federico De Strobel
- Henry T. Perkins
- Jeffrey W. Book
- Lavinio Gualdesi
- William J. Teague