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 thin phytoplankton layers. Particular attention is given to understanding the relationship of the space and time statistics of the physical fields to that of the phytoplankton thin layers

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2009
Accession Number
ADA531076

Entities

People

  • Louis Goodman

Organizations

  • University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aquatic Organisms
  • Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
  • Boundary Layer
  • Buoyancy
  • Data Sets
  • Fluid Mechanics
  • Internal Waves
  • Isotherms
  • Layers
  • Measurement
  • Oceanography
  • Personal Information Managers
  • Phytoplankton
  • Reynolds Number
  • Turbulence
  • Underwater Vehicles
  • Vehicles

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

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

Technology Areas

  • Space