AUV Turbulence Measurements in the LOCO Field Experiments

Abstract

The long-term goal of this project is to quantify the role of turbulence and fine scale vertical shear and buoyancy on the formation, evolution, and breakdown of plankton thin layers. Particular attention is given to understanding the relationship of the space and time statistics of the physical fields to that of the plankton thin layers.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2006
Accession Number
ADA521884

Entities

People

  • Louis Goodman

Organizations

  • University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
  • Buoyancy
  • Data Sets
  • Diffusion
  • Diffusivity
  • Internal Waves
  • Kinetic Energy
  • Measurement
  • Oceanography
  • Oceans
  • Phytoplankton
  • Richardson Number
  • Solitons
  • Statistics
  • Three Dimensional
  • Turbulence
  • Underwater Vehicles

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers

Technology Areas

  • Space