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

Stansfield, Kate; Smeed, David A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1740-1778; Gasparini, Gian Pietro; McPhail, Stephen; Millard, Nick; Stevenson, Peter; Webb, Andy; Vetrano, Anna; Rabe, Benjamin. 2001 Deep-sea, high-resolution, hydrography and current measurements using an autonomous underwater vehicle: the overflow from the Strait of Sicily. Geophysical Research Letters, 28 (13). 2645-2648. https://doi.org/10.1029/2000GL012770

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AUTOSUB-2, an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) developed by the Southampton Oceanography Centre, was used for high resolution hydrographic surveys in the Sicily Strait. A combination of "seasoar" type profiling and terrain following missions were undertaken and velocity and hydrographic measurements taken from AUTOSUB-2 were compared with concurrent shipboard hydrographic and velocity profiles. Even though shipboard stations were separated by just 5 to 8 km along the mission path, data from the AUV showed small scale variability that was missed by the shipboard sampling. In this paper we present the example of an intense jet, with maximum speed greater than 0.50 m s-1, less than 4 km wide.

Item Type:	Publication - Article
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1029/2000GL012770
ISSN:	0094-8276
Additional Information. Not used in RCUK Gateway to Research.:	Paper number 2000GL012770
Additional Keywords:	autosub 2, auv, hydrographic surveying, sicily strait, velocity profiles
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Date made live:	30 Jun 2004 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/107825

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