Autonomous Ocean Profiler

Six of the original ten Autonomous Lagrangian Circulation Explorers (ALACEs) deployed in Drake Passage in January 1990 were still operational at the end of September 1991. After 20 months and 40 vertical cycles these ALACEs are nearing their design life of 25 months and 50 cycles. Since the Drake pa...

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Other Authors: SCRIPPS INSTITUTION OF OCEANOGRAPHY LA JOLLA CA
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 1991
Subjects:
Physical and Dynamic Oceanography
*LIFE CYCLES
*BATHYTHERMOGRAPHS
*OCEANOGRAPHY
MEASUREMENT
TEMPERATURE
DATA LINKS
CIRCULATION
OCEANS
DEPLOYMENT
*ALACE(AUTOMOMOUS LAGRANGIAN CIRCULATION EXPLORER)
OCEAN
PROFILER
AUTONOMOUS OCEAN MEASUREMENT SYSTEM
PE62435N
WUDN259140
Drake Passage
Online Access:http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA247657
http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA247657
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Summary:Six of the original ten Autonomous Lagrangian Circulation Explorers (ALACEs) deployed in Drake Passage in January 1990 were still operational at the end of September 1991. After 20 months and 40 vertical cycles these ALACEs are nearing their design life of 25 months and 50 cycles. Since the Drake passage deployment, ALACE has been extensively improved. The redesigns appear to be successful and of 36 ALACEs deployed during early 1991, only one has suffered infant mortality; two of the 1 0 Drake Passage ALACEs died in their first cycle. Autonomous ocean measurement system, Satellite data links, Ocean profilers.

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