Document Type
Report
Publication Title
Link Foundation Ocean Engineering and Instrumentation Fellowship Reports
Abstract
Vertical transport of heat, momentum, and nutrients in the ocean is often driven by small scale, three dimensional instabilities whose cumulative effect is visible in global climate and global patterns of ocean productivity (Belcher et al. 2012; Dong et al. 2022; Taylor and Ferrari 2011). These features are very difficult to observe with standard oceanographic instrumentation directly; observations typically focus on the larger scale conditions that result in small scale instabilities, or measure the mixing that results (D’Asaro et al. 2011; Thomas et al. 2013). Direct observations of the 3D structure of these instabilities are a missing link in our understanding their physics and impacts. Here I show preliminary results from a new towed phased array Doppler sonar (TPADS) developed by the Multiscale Ocean Dynamics group with Office of Naval Research support which we hope will fill this measurement gap by allowing observations of three dimensional structures at scales of 10’s to 100’s of meters.
Publication Date
8-2023
Recommended Citation
Northcott, Devon, "Phased Array Sonar Exploration of 4-Dimensional variability in Oceanic Flow Structures" (2023). Link Foundation Ocean Engineering and Instrumentation Fellowship Reports. 32.
https://repository.fit.edu/link_ocean/32
Comments
Link Fellowship 2022-2023