Development of a National Littoral Ocean Observing and Prediction System: Field Estimation Via Interdisciplinary Data Assimilation: Turbulence Characterization from an AUV

Abstract

My long term scientific goal is to understand coastal mixing processes, utilizing turbulence measurements obtained from small Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) based sensors, and to contribute to the improvement of subgrid characterization in combined coastal ocean observation/ prediction networks.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1998
Accession Number
ADA550920

Entities

People

  • Edward R. Levine

Organizations

  • Naval Undersea Warfare Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Assimilation
  • Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
  • Bays
  • Boundary Layer
  • Correlation Techniques
  • Data Acquisition
  • Data Analysis
  • Data Modeling
  • Layers
  • Measurement
  • National Security
  • Observation
  • Turbulence
  • Underwater Vehicles
  • Unmanned Underwater Vehicles
  • Vehicles

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

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