Model Assessment and Deployment Strategies for Drifting Instruments
Abstract
This effort is closely linked with our effort on ONR grant N00014-05-1-0092 and is a component of the Optimal Deployment of Drifting Acoustic Sensors, ODDAS. We collaborate with A. C. Poje of CUNY SI; S. Riedlinger and R. Allard at NRL SSC; D. Hammond at Advanced Avionics; and D. Porter and R. Heitsenrether at APL/JHU. The long-term goal of ODDAS is to develop strategies for the deployment of drifting sensors that maximize the amount of environmental information collected with the fewest sensors. Two critical concerns in these deployments are: the advection of the array out of the region of interest during the operational period, and the distortion of the array with subsequent loss of information. Mesoscale and submesoscale advective processes are responsible for array translation and distortion. Our primary long-term research goal is to quantify submesoscale stirring process. Calculating the origin and fate of representative parcels is an essential part of our analysis. Thus, the long-term research and ODDAS goals are complementary. The methodology is directly applicable to deployment planning and the data from the deployments are useful in our assessments of stirring.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 30, 2007
- Accession Number
- ADA573090
Entities
People
- Albert D. Kirwan
- B. L. Lipphardt Jr.
Organizations
- University of Delaware