Testing of the Autonomous Microconductivity-Temperature Vehicle and a Direct Technique for the Determination of Turbulent Fluxes with Autonomous Underwater Vehicles

Abstract

Our long-term goal is to measure the horizontal variability of heat and salt flux in the upper ocean. This will allow us to study the turbulent boundary layer under nonhomogeneous forcing and the development of coherent boundary layer features such as rolls and Langmuir circulation.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 1999
Accession Number
ADA629666

Entities

People

  • James Morison

Organizations

  • University of Washington

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Sensors
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
  • Autonomous Vehicles
  • Boundaries
  • Boundary Layer
  • Detectors
  • Fixed Sensors
  • Fresh Water
  • Heat Energy
  • Heat Flux
  • Kalman Filters
  • Layers
  • Measurement
  • Physics Laboratories
  • Turbulent Boundary Layer
  • Underwater Vehicles
  • Unmanned Vehicles
  • Vehicles

Readers

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