Underwater glider reliability and implications for survey design

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 2858-2870

  Brito, Mario ^a   Smeed, David ^a   Griffiths, Gwyn ^b  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b Autonomous Analytics   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Instrumentation sensors; Risk assessment; Statistical techniques

Indexed keywords

REDUNDANCY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVEYS;

AUTONOMOUS OCEAN SAMPLING NETWORKS; INSTRUMENTATION/SENSORS; RELIABILITY INFORMATION; RISK PROFILE; STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES; STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE; SURVEY DESIGN; UNDERWATER GLIDERS;

GLIDERS;

INSTRUMENTATION; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSOR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURVEY DESIGN;

EID: 84912029192     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: 15200426     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JTECH-D-13-00138.1     Document Type: Article

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