Acoustic Sensing of Ocean Turbulence

The need for direct turbulence measurements in the upper ocean arise from widespread requirements to correctly parameterize momentum and scalar fluxes across the air/ocean interface. Until recently these observations were limited by a lack of instrumentation capable of measuring the fine-structure v...

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Main Author: Coelho, Emanuel F
Format: Report
Language:English
Subjects:
ACOUSTIC DETECTION
Acoustic Detection and Detectors
ACOUSTIC MEASUREMENT
ACOUSTIC VELOCITY
ACOUSTIC WAVES
ACOUSTICS
AIR
AIR WATER INTERACTION
ALGORITHMS
BUOYANCY
DETECTION
DIGITAL SYSTEMS
DISSIPATION
DOPPLER EFFECT
ESTIMATES
Fluid Mechanics
GAUSSIAN NOISE
GRAVITY WAVES
INTERFACES
MEAN
MEASUREMENT
METEOROLOGICAL DATA
MOMENTUM
MOMENTUM TRANSFER
MONTE CARLO METHOD
OCEAN CIRCULATION
OCEAN CURRENTS
OCEAN SURFACE
OCEANS
Physical and Dynamic Oceanography
QUANTITY
REAL TIME
RECORDING SYSTEMS
REYNOLDS NUMBER
SCALAR FUNCTIONS
SCALE
SIGNAL PROCESSING
SIMULATION
SPECTRA
STRATIFICATION
STRESSES
SURFACE WAVES
TEMPERATURE
THESES
TURBULENCE
TURBULENT FLOW
VELOCITY
WHITE NOISE
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Summary:The need for direct turbulence measurements in the upper ocean arise from widespread requirements to correctly parameterize momentum and scalar fluxes across the air/ocean interface. Until recently these observations were limited by a lack of instrumentation capable of measuring the fine-structure velocity field down to dissipation scales. The recently developed CDV package allows simultaneous sub-centimeter resolution measurements of temperature, conductivity, pressure, shear and the 3 component velocity field. As part of the development of this system a Monte-Carlo simulation was used to analyze the performance of several spectral estimators of the mean acoustic Doppler shifts, from which the velocity components are derived. The selected algorithms were implemented on a Digital Signal Processor allowing real-time estimation of the velocity, shear and scalar quantities. To verify the performance of the CDV package, it was deployed off Wharf 2 in Monterey for 24 hours while simultaneously recording meteorological data. Reynold's stresses, buoyancy fluxes and fine scale stratification were characterized and the surface gravity waves field identified.