Testing of the Autonomous Microconductivity - Temperature Vehicle and a Direct Technique for the Determination of Turbulent Fluxes With Autonomous Underwater Vehicles

Abstract

The objectives of ONR grant N00014-96-1-5033, "Testing of the Autonomous Microconductivity-Temperature Vehicle and a Direct Technique for the Determination of Turbulent Fluxes with Autonomous Underwater Vehicles," were to develop a technique to measure vertical water velocity and the turbulent fluxes of heat and salt with autonomous underwater vehicles, and to test the technique by using a new vehicle to measure variability in the upper ocean around summer at the Surface Heat Balance of the Arctic (SHEBA) station. In the last three years the grant has exclusively covered support for our graduate student, Dan Hayes, to perfect the Kalman smoothing technique, analyze the SHEBA data, and develop a model to explain the observations.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 10, 2003
Accession Number
ADA414847

Entities

People

  • James Morison

Organizations

  • University of Washington

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Autonomy
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Sensors
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
  • Birds
  • Boundary Layer
  • Climate Change
  • Control Systems
  • Convection
  • Coordinate Systems
  • Differential Equations
  • Energy
  • Equations Of Motion
  • Heat Balance
  • Measurement
  • Physics Laboratories
  • Specific Heat
  • Three Dimensional
  • Turbulent Mixing
  • Underwater Vehicles

Readers

  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers
  • Robotics and Automation.
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.