IMPROVED ENVIRONMENTAL CHARACTERIZATION AND NEW INSTRUMENTATION FOR NAVY SECURITY PROGRAMS MEDS & LITMUS

Abstract

The effort proposed here is to develop and support environmental characterization and improved instrumentation for Navy related projects. Broadly, our work aims to provide measurements by participating in research cruises and developing better measurement techniques for the characterization of environmental parameters relevant to Navy operations (specifically turbulence, near-inertial shear layers, mixing, and upper-ocean stratification) and their effective assimilation into numerical models. Our specific focus here is observations, analysis and instrumentation to improve characterization of near-inertial shear layers and turbulence in the ocean.

Document Details

Document Type
DoD Grant Award
Publication Date
Feb 03, 2017
Source ID
N000141712112

Entities

People

  • Matthew H. Alford

Organizations

  • Office of Naval Research
  • United States Navy
  • University of California, San Diego

Tags

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

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