Internal Waves on the Continental Margin
Abstract
Internal wave antennas composed of moored acoustic doppler current profilers (ADCP's) generally covering the middle 80% of the water column plus one to seven continuously recording temperature loggers distributed along the mooring line were deployed in waters just offshore of San Diego at depths ranging from 15 m to 500 m during the summer and fall of 1996 and 1997. Simultaneous meteorological observations are available from Scripps Pier in La Jolla. OTD yoyo's were carried out over periods ranging from about 3 to about 24 hours during mooring deployment, service and recovery, and a bottom pressure sensor was deployed at the 15 m mooring. The data provide a new degree of vertical and horizontal resolution of the velocity and temperature fields associated with internal tidal band motions (including diurnal motions apparently driven by the land-seabreeze cycle) and borelike and apparently solitary disturbances in shallow (tens of m) water during summertime.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Apr 25, 2000
- Accession Number
- ADA376807
Entities
People
- Clinton D. Winant
- Myrl C. Hendershott
Organizations
- Scripps Institution of Oceanography