Fiscal Year	2008
Division	Graduate School of Engineering & Applied Science
Department	Oceanography
Investigator(s)	MacMahan, James H.
Sponsor	Office of Naval Research (Navy)
Summary	The goal of the NPS component of the planned ONR DTI is to provide new in situ observations of hydrodynamics in an estuarine/tidal-flat system through inexpensive position-tracking drifters and unique autonomous surveying platforms. A primary objective is to obtain synoptic maps of velocities within the tidal flat for various tidal levels. In addition, drifter-derived dispersion and diffusivity will be estimated at various morphodynamic regions in the macrotidal environment. This study will be integrated into concurrent observational programs of the tidal flat system and parallel process and predictive modeling efforts. Macrotidal flats are an important naval battlespace environment.
Keywords	Tidal Flats Dispersion Lagrangian
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