Title: Early Student Support for Understanding the ocean atmosphere coupling in the Northern Indian Ocean: Developing a new profiling platform Aurelia

Abstract

Our involvement in the ASIRI and MISOBOB project has shown an immediate need for a new profiler that would take shallow profiles during Air-Sea interaction experiments. This proposal is to support a graduate veteran (honorably discharged from USAF) student develop a new low cost platform capable of taking multiple profiles in the upper ocean, especially in the tropics and coastal oceans. The profiler would serve as a mixed layer profiler for current and any future ONR supported fieldwork. This student will be involved in ONR supported MISOBOB and other projects. The device design started as a senior design project three years back and has resulted in a working prototype recently tested in a tank facility at UMass Dartmouth, with a provisional patent application being filed soon. This 18 month proposal is to carry out ocean tests, and develop a new form factor which will be even cheaper and sonobuoy deployment compatible, while supporting the veteran student for his graduate (masters) work

Document Details

Document Type
DoD Grant Award
Publication Date
Aug 31, 2020
Source ID
N000142012741

Entities

People

  • Amit Tandon

Organizations

  • Office of Naval Research
  • United States Navy
  • University of Massachusetts

Tags

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers
  • STEM Education
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.