Testing of the Autonomous Microconductivity - Temperature Vehicle and a Direct Technique for the Determination of Turbulent Fluxes With Autonomous Underwater Vehicles

The objectives of ONR grant N00014-96-1-5033, "Testing of the Autonomous Microconductivity-Temperature Vehicle and a Direct Technique for the Determination of Turbulent Fluxes with Autonomous Underwater Vehicles," were to develop a technique to measure vertical water velocity and the turbu...

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Main Author: Morison, James H.
Other Authors: WASHINGTON UNIV SEATTLE POLAR SCIENCE CENTER
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 2003
Subjects:
Underwater and Marine Navigation and Guidance
*MIXED LAYER(MARINE)
*HEAT BALANCE
VELOCITY
UNDERWATER VEHICLES
VERTICAL ORIENTATION
SELF OPERATION
HEAT FLUX
ARCTIC REGIONS
*SURFACE HEAT BALANCE
AUV(AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER VEHICLES)
VERTICAL WATER VELOCITY
MICROCONDUCTIVITY TEMPERATURE VEHICLE
SHEBA(SURFACE HEAT BALANCE OF THE ARCTIC)
Arctic
Hayes
Online Access:http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA414847
http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA414847
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Summary:The objectives of ONR grant N00014-96-1-5033, "Testing of the Autonomous Microconductivity-Temperature Vehicle and a Direct Technique for the Determination of Turbulent Fluxes with Autonomous Underwater Vehicles," were to develop a technique to measure vertical water velocity and the turbulent fluxes of heat and salt with autonomous underwater vehicles, and to test the technique by using a new vehicle to measure variability in the upper ocean around summer at the Surface Heat Balance of the Arctic (SHEBA) station. In the last three years the grant has exclusively covered support for our graduate student, Dan Hayes, to perfect the Kalman smoothing technique, analyze the SHEBA data, and develop a model to explain the observations.

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