Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/2122/1056
Authors: Fuda, J. L.* 
Millot, C.* 
Hoog, S.* 
Gerber, H.* 
Title: Analysis of ADCP data above a bottom observatory
Issue Date: 20-Mar-2006
Series/Report no.: 2-3/49(2006)
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2122/1056
Keywords: ADCP sensitivity
current lines inclination
observatory’s wake
Subject Classification04. Solid Earth::04.02. Exploration geophysics::04.02.05. Downhole, radioactivity, remote sensing, and other methods 
04. Solid Earth::04.02. Exploration geophysics::04.02.07. Instruments and techniques 
Abstract: A 300-kHz ADCP was set on GEOSTAR, a six-m3 deep-sea observatory. It was operated with cells of 80 cm during a three-week test experiment at 42-m water depth in the northern Adriatic sub-basin. Although it provided valuable data about the horizontal current field over most of the water column, it also allowed specifying the wake disturbances induced by the observatory. These disturbances are characterised by vertical velocities that are significant up to ~20 m above seafloor (echo intensity data suggest that the wake can even reach the surface), and by inclinations of the bottom nepheloïd layer (as deduced from differences in echo intensities from beam to beam). Our analysis is validated by consistent relationships between the horizontal current direction and speed on one side and the characteristics of both dynamical (vertical velocity) and non-dynamical (echo intensity) parameters on the other side. It is in good agreement with the simulations from a numerical model, and hence specifies the sensitivity (especially with respect to echo intensity) and accuracy of an instrument usually operated within fields of current and scatterers not disturbed by the device supporting it. In addition, the error velocity parameter displays specific characteristics that easily allow specifying the thickness of the layer disturbed by the observatory, thus providing a technique to validate the quality of data acquired in similar conditions.
Appears in Collections:Annals of Geophysics

Files in This Item:
File Description SizeFormat
12 Fuda.pdf770.47 kBAdobe PDFView/Open
Show full item record

Page view(s) 50

202
checked on Mar 27, 2024

Download(s) 10

612
checked on Mar 27, 2024

Google ScholarTM

Check