Model Verification Applications

Instruments

Examples

• ADP - Acoustic Doppler Profiler

• Poverty Bay - Describes how a bottom-tracking ADP on a small vessel was used in New Zealand to collect complex circulation currents near a sewage outfall.

• ADV - Acoustic Doppler Velocimeter

• MAC3D - Describes how an ADV was used by the USGS to measure water velocity profiles induced by air diffusers and mixers in a test tank and in a reservoir.

• Argonaut-XR and YSI Sonde

• Hong Kong Water Quality Project - A Hong Kong university is using an Argonaut-XR and a YSI Multi-Probe Sonde as part of a water quality and velocity monitoring program.

• FlowTracker Handheld ADV

• South Platte River - Describes a model verification project using a FlowTracker at Colorado State University.