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Back Autonomous Ocean Flux and Wave Buoys for Use in the ONR Marginal Ice Zone DURIP

Fiscal Year 2012
Division Graduate School of Engineering & Applied Science
Department Oceanography
Investigator(s) Stanton, Timothy P.
Sponsor Office of Naval Research (Navy)
Summary Funds are requested for the procurement, fabrication, and testing/calibration of two Autonomous Ocean Flux and Wave Buoys. These observational systems are to be deployed on the Arctic Ocean sea ice cover in support of the ONR DRI "Emerging Dynamics of the Marginal Ice Zone". These systems are an enhancement of existing technology previously developed in the Ocean Turbulence Group at NPS. The standard turbulence sensor suite on the AOFBs will be modified with: (1) two different wave motion sensors to determine wave forcing acting on the ice and water column, (2) a thermistor string and 3cm binned coherent Doppler profiler to measure thermal and turbulence properties immediately below the ocean-ice interface, and (3) a precision short wave incident radiometer. The proposed combination of measurements is necessary to understand the complex interactions that occur in the Marginal Ice Zone.
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