BASS Measurements of Bottom Currents and Stress in the North Sea

Abstract

Two deployments of a Benthic Acoustic Stress Sensor (BASS) tripod were successfully made off Scheveningen, The Netherlands, in support of the NATO mine burial exercise. The spring systems test was a deployment from 1 May 1997 to 12 May 1997. The November deployment lasted from 11 November 1997 to 1 December 1997. The BASS tripod measured current, turbulence, waves and stress at three heights above bottom, temperature at seven heights, optical backscatter at five heights, and conductivity and pressure at one height above bottom.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 22, 1998
Accession Number
ADA349803

Entities

People

  • Albert J. Williams
  • Fredrik T. Thwaites

Organizations

  • Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Backscattering
  • Boundary Layer
  • Conductivity
  • Data Sets
  • Deployment
  • Engineering
  • Information Operations
  • Measurement
  • Military Research
  • Netherlands
  • North Sea
  • Oceans
  • Physics
  • Redundancy
  • Technical Information Centers
  • Turbulence

Readers

  • Academic Conference Management
  • Coastal Oceanography