An Autonomous Oceanographic Instrument Array

• Main Author: Owens, W. B.
• Other Authors: WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION MA
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1999
• Subjects: Physical and Dynamic Oceanography; *OCEANOGRAPHIC EQUIPMENT; TEMPERATURE; DEPLOYMENT; FLOATS; SALINITY; HEAT LOSS; LABRADOR SEA; AUTONOMOUS FLOATS; Ari; Labrador Sea
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA361378; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA361378

Under this DURIP grant, ten profiling ALACE autonomous floats were procured and prepared for deployment. These floats included vertical velocity measurements at depth. They also provided profiles of temperature and salinity every time that they traveled from depth to the surface to transmit both the...