Glider operations in the Bay of Bengal

Author

Zacharia, Shijo ; Seshasayanan, R. ; Sudhakar, Tata ; Gowthaman, V. ; Muthukumaravel, S. ; Suresh, G. ; Maurya, Sarojani ; Sireesha, N. ; Thathyesh, A. ; Suresh Kumar, R. ; Thangarasu, P. ; Atmanand, M.A.

Author_Institution

Nat. Inst. of Ocean Technol., Minist. of Earth Sci., Chennai, India

fYear

2015

fDate

23-25 Feb. 2015

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

Indian Ocean has an important role in regional and global climate due to its geography. Presently, variety of ocean observation instruments are employed to measure time and space variability of the large ocean that extends to two closed bays at higher latitudes. Underwater gliders are recently considered to be a vital platform for ocean observation. The revolutionary new underwater glider (“Barathi”), as a mobile sensor node was steered remotely and carried out highly spatial and temporal resolution measurement in Bay of Bengal (BoB) on April-August 2014 is presented in this paper.

Keywords

autonomous underwater vehicles; ocean temperature; oceanographic equipment; oceanographic regions; remote sensing; AD 2014 04 to 08; Barathi; Bay of Bengal; Indian Ocean geography; glider operations; mobile sensor node; ocean observation instruments; spatiotemporal resolution measurement; time-space variability measurement; underwater gliders; Global Positioning System; Manuals; Meteorology; Mobile communication; Oceans; Portals; World Wide Web; Bay of Bengal; Conductivity; Glider; Ocean Observation; Sensor Node; Temperature;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Underwater Technology (UT), 2015 IEEE

Conference_Location

Chennai

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-8299-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/UT.2015.7108279

Filename

7108279