Instrument packages to study long term sediment transport processes in a shallow bay

Author

Strahle, W.J. ; Martini, M.A. ; Davis, R.E.

Author_Institution

Branch of Atlantic Marine Geol., US Geol. Survey, Woods Hole, MA, USA

Volume

1

fYear

1994

fDate

13-16 Sep 1994

Abstract

Pressure and near-surface and near-bottom measurements of current, temperature, salinity and light transmission were required in Mobile Bay, a 3 m deep estuary on the Gulf of Mexico. This environment presented several obstacles to obtaining long term observations. Boat traffic, soft estuary bottom, heavy biofouling, rapid sample rates and large data storage were overcome by using instrumentation techniques that are applicable to other estuary systems. Nearly two years of continuous data was collected

Keywords

oceanographic equipment; oceanographic techniques; seafloor phenomena; sedimentation; Alabama; Gulf of Mexico; Mobile Bay; USA; current; data acquisition; data storage; estuary; instrument package; light transmission; long term sediment transport; marine geology; mount platform; ocean sea coast; oceanographic technique; optics; pressure; salinity a; seafloor; sedimentation; temperature; Boats; Current measurement; Geologic measurements; Geology; Instruments; Memory; Packaging; Pressure measurement; Sediments; Temperature measurement;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

OCEANS '94. 'Oceans Engineering for Today's Technology and Tomorrow's Preservation.' Proceedings

Conference_Location

Brest

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2056-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OCEANS.1994.363897

Filename

363897