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Evolution of Autonomous Platform for Sustained Ocean Observations--Russ E. Davis
Pages 138-140

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... The complex interactions of air-sea fluxes, ocean mixing, primary production, biogeochemistry, marine optics, marine acoustics, and fauna in the upper ocean demand sustained observation with comprehensive sensor suites. The questions to be answered are myriad and of practical and academic interest.
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From page 139...
... • Relatively extensive sensor suites will generate profiles when the vehicle cycles to depth and back. Typical sensors to be carried include CTD, multiple wavelength fluorescence, optical back scatter and/or transmission, Laser Doppler Velocimeter or thrust probe for turbulence, Laser Optical Plankton Counter, chemical sensors for oxygen, pH, CO2 and/or nutrients, and an optically sensed and occasionally flushed sediment trap.
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From page 140...
... What is needed now is not so much a specific instrument as a line of scientific and technical developments leading to a class of multi-use autonomous instruments.
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Key Terms

  • argo floats
  • upper ocean
  • technical developments
  • mixed layer
  • ocean observations

  • data recording
  • recovery operations
  • acoustic propagation
  • ocean demand
  • routine observations

  • limited set
  • qualitative errors
  • design lives
  • future ocean
  • worldwide argo

  • oceanic consequences
  • sive sensor
  • improve models
  • laser optical
  • developments leading

  • occasionally flushed
  • sea fluxes
  • carry comprehensive
  • food web
  • primary production

  • platforms neither
  • optical plankton
  • assimilation procedures
  • associated time
  • scientific results


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