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.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2002
Accession Number
ADA626868

Entities

People

  • H. W. Wijesekera
  • Timothy J. Boyd

Organizations

  • Oregon State University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Atmospheric Sciences
  • Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
  • Data Sets
  • Data Storage Systems
  • Environment
  • Instrumentation
  • Measurement
  • Measuring Instruments
  • Microbalances
  • Ocean Environments
  • Oceans
  • Power Converters
  • Turbulence
  • Turbulent Mixing
  • Underwater Vehicles
  • Universities
  • Vehicles

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Acoustical Oceanography.
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
  • Oceanography.