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The Future . . . One More Time--Rob Pinkel
Pages 55-57

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From page 55...
... Presently, there is a growing appreciation that the mesoscale and larger currents loose energy and mix scalars at rates that only partially depend on their own flow properties. Sites of high turbulent mixing are found near topography that is tuned to the baroclinic tides and also near flow structures that can refractively trap near inertial waves.
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From page 56...
... multibeam swath sonars should be installed on research vessels and used for the routine mapping of scattering layers in the upper 600 m of the ocean. On a moving ship, a swath sonar provides a 3D view of plankton patchiness that can be recorded whenever the ship is underway (Figure 1)
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From page 57...
... Pooled AUV resources should be expanded, such that a ship user has the ability to operate a small constellation of remote sampling platforms. A central survey ship and surrounding AUVs could conduct small scale tracer release experiments, frontal studies, etc., with great efficiency.
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