WEEKS Eddie, ROBINSON Mark E, LI Chunyan. Quantifying cold front induced water transport of a bay with in situ observations using manned and unmanned boats[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2018, 37(11): 1-7. doi: 10.1007/s13131-018-1330-1
Citation: WEEKS Eddie, ROBINSON Mark E, LI Chunyan. Quantifying cold front induced water transport of a bay with in situ observations using manned and unmanned boats[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2018, 37(11): 1-7. doi: 10.1007/s13131-018-1330-1

Quantifying cold front induced water transport of a bay with in situ observations using manned and unmanned boats

doi: 10.1007/s13131-018-1330-1
  • Received Date: 2018-01-09
  • The generation of high-resolution data is increasingly important in understanding the complexities of coastal ocean and developing sound management strategies, especially in view of the long-term impact of severe weather systems. The impact of severe weather systems, when integrated over time, can be significant when compared with tidal oscillations. This paper presents a study of water transport out of Vermilion Bay in response to a short, intense event associated with a passing atmospheric cold front, and reports the application of an Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) mounted on an Automated Surface Craft (ASC), known as the auto-boat or unmanned boat, developed in our lab at the Louisiana State University, to generate high resolution data accurately at a fraction of the cost of a manned boat. In our study, we used a manned boat and an unmanned boat, each for over 24 h to cover an entire diurnal tidal cycle, to measure flow velocity profiles to calculate the total transport. A stationary ADCP was deployed in the Southwest Pass of the Vermilion Bay from May 2009 to April 2012, providing data almost continuously (with only one major gap), with a 717-day record of water transport between the northern Gulf of Mexico and Vermilion Bay, and demonstrates the importance of the pass in water transport.
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