Wave Glider for Arctic Ocean Observations
Abstract
This DURIP proposal seeks funding to purchase one Liquid Robotics Wave Glider to augment a previously purchased unit, and to outfit both them for use in sampling surface processes in the Arctic Ocean. The systems will be used in future Arctic Ocean experiments sponsored by the ONR, such as the Sea State and Boundary Layer Physics of the Emerging Arctic Ocean, a Departmental Research Initiative (often simply called the Waves DRI) with a field campaign in 2015. The Wave Gliders will be used to collect weather data and wave height, plus conductivity and temperature near the surface. The weather and wave data will be used by Jim Thomson, APL/UW, whose portion of the Waves DRI is entitled Storm Flux: Heat and Momentum Transfer in the Arctic Air–Sea–Ice System. The near-surface conductivity and temperature measurements will be used by Craig Lee, Luc Rainville and others to supplement the profiles taken by the APL/UW Seagliders, but outside the edge of the Arctic sea ice. The Wave Glider sensor data will be utilized by investigators from UW (as well as other organizations), but WHOI is proposing to procure and manage the vehicles because of its previous experience in handling and piloting the gliders. WHOI has five SV-2 series gliders used as acoustic communications gateways, plus several for oceanographic surveys and marine mammal monitoring. In addition WHOI has one remaining SV-3 of two that were purchased under a previous (the other was lost in the Beaufort Sea in September 2014). The glider that was lost was trapped in ice, and as a result an additional enhancement proposed for this DURIP is acquisition and installation of infrared cameras to be able to detect the presence of sea ice.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Aug 12, 2016
- Source ID
- N000141512890
Entities
People
- Lee Freitag
Organizations
- Office of Naval Research
- United States Navy
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution