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LOWERED ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENT PROFILER (LADCP)

One Lowered Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (LADCP), property of and operated by CNR-ISMAR La Spezia, was used to measure velocity profiles. The team used a RDI Workhorse 300 kHz ADCP. The bin size was 5 meters and the range about 100 m. Ensembles were formed every second, along the down- and upcast. This allowed to obtain a vertical profile of horizontal velocities (u, v), and to associate a velocity field to each water mass. The data were processed on board.



2009-12-16