AUV-Based Measurements of Turbulence in the Oregon Coastal Ocean

Abstract

Our long-term goals are to understand the mechanisms of turbulence and mixing in the coastal ocean environment sufficiently well to be able to incorporate mixing processes in coastal circulation models as sub-grid scale parameterizations. We plan to achieve our long-range objectives by collecting concurrent data sets of microscale, finescale, and mesoscale variables from sensors mounted on an autonomous underwater vehicle. The main objective of this study is to demonstrate the feasibility of simultaneously collecting microstructure, hydrographic, and velocity data from an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) platform and ancillary data from a small boat in Oregon coastal waters.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2003
Accession Number
ADA618722

Entities

People

  • H. W. Wijesekera
  • Timothy J. Boyd

Organizations

  • Oregon State University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Atmospheric Sciences
  • Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
  • Data Sets
  • Deployment
  • Detectors
  • Environment
  • Measurement
  • Measuring Instruments
  • Microbalances
  • Microstructure
  • Ocean Environments
  • Oceans
  • Turbulence
  • Underwater Vehicles
  • Universities
  • Vehicles

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

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