Bottom Boundary Applications

Instruments

Examples

• ADP - Acoustic Doppler Profiler and Hydra System

• Sediment Transport - ADP and ADV Hydra systems were deployed near the mouth of the Columbia River to measure movement of dredged material.

• ADV - Acoustic Doppler Velocimeter

• Fluid Mud - Shows how an ADV Hydra was used to help understand the influence of high-concentration suspensions of of fine sediments on flow.
• Martha's Vineyard - Describes a laboratory evaluation and a field deployment of an ADV in the benthic boundary layer south of Martha's Vineyard during Hurricane Edouard by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.