A Compact Meteorlogical Water-following (MET) Drifter for Aircraft Deployment

Abstract

The goals of this research are to construct an air-deployable drifter that has the capability to measure a suite of oceanographic and meteorological parameters and to report its position and the data in real time through satellites or other remote links.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 1997
Accession Number
ADA628413

Entities

People

  • Ken Melville
  • Peter Niiler

Organizations

  • Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Algorithms
  • Ambient Noise
  • Deployment
  • Information Operations
  • Internal Waves
  • Labrador Sea
  • Measurement
  • Mediterranean Sea
  • Ocean Currents
  • Oceanography
  • Oceans
  • Physical Oceanography
  • Surface Waves
  • Waves
  • Wind
  • Wind Direction

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Aviation Safety and Air Traffic Management
  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Satellites