Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
OCEANS '94. 'Oceans Engineering for Today's Technology and Tomorrow's Preservation.' Proceedings
Conference_Location :
Brest
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-2056-5
DOI :
10.1109/OCEANS.1994.363897
