Velocity Comparisons from Upward and Downward Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers on the West Florida Shelf

Autor:	Robert H. Weisberg, Jyotika I. Virmani, Dennis A. Mayer
Rok vydání:	2007
Předmět:	Current (stream) Atmospheric Science symbols.namesake Water column Statistical analyses Climatology symbols Ocean Engineering Mooring Geodesy Doppler effect Geology Regional differences
Zdroj:	Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology. 24:1950-1960
ISSN:	1520-0426 0739-0572
DOI:	10.1175/jtech2094.1
Popis:	Current observations are compared from upward- and downward-looking acoustic Doppler current profilers (ADCPs) deployed on the West Florida Shelf (WFS). Despite regional differences, statistical analyses show good agreement between all sets of observations throughout the water column except in the upper few meters where all downward-looking ADCPs exhibit small, but significant, reduction in rms speed values. Evidence suggests that this reduction is mooring related. It is possible that the presence of near-surface bubbles caused by wave activity could bias the near-surface observations. Otherwise, either the upward- or downward-looking mooring systems produce equivalent observations with differences due to spatial variations.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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