FRONT: Front-Resolving Observational Network with Telemetry

Abstract

The goal of this National Ocean Partnership Program is to develop an autonomous network of ocean sensors that telemeter their physical and biological data to shore in real-time with cutting edge communication technologies. With additional remotely sensed data (satellite measurements of temperature and color and shore-based high-frequency radar (CODAR) measurements of surface currents), these data streams will be assimilated into physical and biological models to predict the 4-dimensional properties of a limited coastal region. The accuracy of the assimilated products will be tested with data from a series of high-resolution ship surveys. Additional measurements of turbulence and other small-scale properties will be used to aid the eddy diffusivity parameterizations used in the data assimilation model.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2002
Accession Number
ADA628885

Entities

People

  • David Hebert
  • David Ullman
  • Peter Cornillon
  • Petra Stegmann

Organizations

  • University of Rhode Island

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Artificial Satellites
  • Assimilation
  • Cell Size
  • Coastal Regions
  • Detectors
  • High Resolution
  • Measurement
  • Radial Velocity
  • Regions
  • Rhode Island
  • Sea Surface Temperature
  • Surface Temperature
  • Telemetry
  • Telemetry Equipment
  • Towed Bodies
  • Turbulence

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Aerospace Test and Evaluation
  • Coastal Oceanography

Technology Areas

  • Space