Observations of Near-Bottom Currents With Low-Cost SeaHorse Tilt Current Meters

Abstract

The SeaHorse TCM is a low-cost, easy to use, robust current meter based on the drag principle. Use of a large number of low-cost instruments would result in a new high spatial resolution view of the processes and to improve the ocean state prediction. The ultimate goal is to improve this technology by including expendable option with automatic data relay after deployment and to develop a global scale program of near-bottom current observations.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2009
Accession Number
ADA531856

Entities

People

  • Vitalii A. Sheremet

Organizations

  • University of Rhode Island

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aerodynamic Drag
  • Automatic
  • Calibration
  • Communication Systems
  • Deployment
  • Drag
  • Expendable
  • Information Operations
  • Instrumentation
  • Measuring Instruments
  • Observation
  • Oceanographic Equipment
  • Oceanography
  • Oceans
  • Rhode Island
  • Standards
  • Tidal Currents

Readers

  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers
  • Oceanography.
  • Radio communications and signal processing.