Deep-sea, high-resolution, hydrography and current measurements using an autonomous underwater vehicle: The overflow from the Strait of Sicily

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 28, Issue 13, 2001, Pages 2645-2648

  Stansfield, Kate ^a   Smeed, David A ^a   Gasparini, Gian Pietro ^b   McPhail, Stephen ^a   Millard, Nick ^a   Stevenson, Peter ^a   Webb, Andy ^a   Vetrano, Anna ^b   Rabe, Benjamin ^a  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b CNRIstituto per lo Studio dell'Oceanografia Fisica   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

JETS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SAMPLING; HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEYS; SHIPS;

HYDROGRAPHY;

OCEAN CURRENTS; AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER VEHICLES;

CURRENT; DEEP SEA; HYDROGRAPHY; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; UNDERWATER VEHICLE;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER VEHICLES (AUV); HIGH RESOLUTION; HYDROGRAPHIC MEASUREMENTS; MAXIMUM SPEED; OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRES; SMALL SCALE VARIABILITY; TERRAIN FOLLOWING; VELOCITY PROFILES;

EID: 0035391890     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000GL012770     Document Type: Article

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