Wintertime Guangdong coastal currents successfully captured by cheap GPS drifters

Hongyang Lin; Zhenyu Sun; Zhaozhang Chen; Jia Zhu; Jianyu Hu

doi:10.1007/s13131-019-1425-3

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Hongyang Lin, Zhenyu Sun, Zhaozhang Chen, Jia Zhu, Jianyu Hu. Wintertime Guangdong coastal currents successfully captured by cheap GPS drifters[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2020, 39(1): 166-170. doi: 10.1007/s13131-019-1425-3

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Hongyang Lin, Zhenyu Sun, Zhaozhang Chen, Jia Zhu, Jianyu Hu. Wintertime Guangdong coastal currents successfully captured by cheap GPS drifters[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2020, 39(1): 166-170. doi: 10.1007/s13131-019-1425-3

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Wintertime Guangdong coastal currents successfully captured by cheap GPS drifters

doi: 10.1007/s13131-019-1425-3

Hongyang Lin^{1, 2},
Zhenyu Sun^{1, 2},
Zhaozhang Chen¹,
Jia Zhu¹,
Jianyu Hu^{1, 2
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1.
State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, College of Ocean and Earth Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361102, China
2.
Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), Zhuhai 519000, China

Funds: The National Basic Research Program of China under contract No. 2015CB954004; the National Natural Science Foundation of China under contract Nos 41606009, 41776027, 91858201 and 41890801; the Xiamen University Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities under contract No. 20720180099; the municipal project of Huizhou City under contract No. F2017-01-1; the Laboratory for Regional Oceanography and Numerical Modeling, Pilot National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology (Qingdao) under contract No. 2017A02.

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Corresponding author: E-mail: hujy@xmu.edu.cn
Received Date: 2018-11-09
Accepted Date: 2019-04-15

Available Online: 2020-04-21

Publish Date: 2020-01-20

Abstract

Abstract

This study introduces a type of self-developed, GPS-based, simple and cheap Surface Current Experiment (SUCE) drifters designated for observing surface coastal currents. By examining trajectories of six drifters deployed in the Daya Bay and the drifter-derived velocities, we conclude that such drifters are generally capable of capturing the characteristics of wintertime surface coastal currents along the Guangdong coast.
- GPS drifter,
- trajectory,
- coastal current

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