Shallow Water Environmental Profiler in Trawl-Resistant Real-Time Configuration (SEPTR) Used for Frontal Dynamics Research

Abstract

During both a winter and summer period of 2006, SEPTR moorings were used for real-time monitoring of velocity, temperature, salinity, waves, and optics in a dynamic frontal zone of the central Adriatic Sea. From the trawl-resistant, barnacle-like shaped SEPTR housings, velocities were measured acoustically. Other water column parameters were measured four times a day through a CTD profiler that was released to the surface and winched back into the protective mooring housing. Thus, all variables of dynamic significance were monitored synoptically across a heavily fished coastal frontal zone.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 2007
Accession Number
ADA474301

Entities

People

  • Alessandro Carta
  • Andrew J. Quaid
  • Emanuel Coelho
  • Jeffrey W. Book
  • Lavinio Gualdesi
  • Mark S. Hulbert
  • Michel Rixen
  • Vittorio Grandi

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Adriatic Sea
  • Chemical Compounds
  • Department Of Defense
  • Dynamics
  • Landforms
  • Military Research
  • Monitoring
  • Oceans
  • Salinity
  • Shallow Water
  • Standards
  • Surface Waves
  • Water
  • Waves

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Oceanography.