Measurement of Turbulence with Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers - Sources of Error and Laboratory Results

Hydraulic Measurements and Experimental Methods

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 346-355

  Nystrom, Elizabeth A ^a   Oberg, Kevin A ^a   Rehmann, Chris R ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENT PROFILERS (ADCP); ACOUSTIC DOPPLER VELOCIMETERS (ADV);

ALGORITHMS; DOPPLER EFFECT; ERROR ANALYSIS; KINETIC ENERGY; SIGNAL GENERATORS; STATISTICS; TRANSDUCERS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

TURBULENCE;

EID: 0942279348     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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