Profiling Applications

Instruments

Examples

• ADP - Acoustic Doppler Profiler

• Hurricane Georges - Describes how an ADP and SonWave software were used to collect ocean-current profile data and wave data during Hurricane Georges in the Fall of 1998 off the southeast Florida coast.
• Moving Vessel Applications - Describes how an ADP can be used with either bottom-tracking or GPS data on board a moving vessel to remove vessel motion from water-current data.
• 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.
• San Felipe - This report describes data collected from an ADP in the Gulf of California near San Felipe, Mexico. The ADP was operated by CICESE aboard the R/V Francisco Ulloa.
• Waste Water Study - Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts is several ADPs to collect water current profile data as part of a study to optimize the discharge of treated waste water.

• ADV - Acoustic Doppler Velocimeter

• Rio Grande - Describes a U.S. Bureau of Reclamation project using an ADV to obtain detailed velocity profiles in the Rio Grande low-flow channel near Socorro, New Mexico.

• Argonaut-based sonar

• Lagrangian Float - Describes how an Argonaut-based sonar is being used in a scientific research project to study circulation and mixing in the upper ocean and coastal waters.

• RiverSurveyor - Integrated ADP system

• Discharge Demonstration - Describes a discharge demonstration conducted for USGS and CDWR using adjacently-mounted profilers.