A Chiometer for Towed Bodies and a New Winch for SWIMS3

Abstract

Our goal is to understand mixing in shallow water, i.e., the upper 500 to 1000 m, by observing it in relation to the larger-scale processes producing it. Regimes of interest include open-ocean fronts, continental slopes and shelves, ridges and canyons. This project will add a chiometer to SWIMS3, our depth-cycling towed body, to observe scalar microstructure in addition to the larger-scale variables currently measured. It will also replace the winch used to cycle SWIMS3 in depth.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2009
Accession Number
ADA602943

Entities

People

  • Michael C. Gregg

Organizations

  • University of Washington

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Acceptance Tests
  • Continental Slopes
  • Information Operations
  • Microstructure
  • Physics
  • Physics Laboratories
  • Ridges
  • Shallow Water
  • Towed Bodies
  • Universities
  • Water

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Acoustical Oceanography.
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers