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More About this Research: Coherent Structures in Rivers and Estuaries Experiment COHSTREX website
Subscription may be required for full text: Chickadel, C.C., A.R. Horner-Devine, S.A. Talke, and A.T. Jessup, "Vertical boil propagation from a submerged estuarine sill," Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, doi:10.1029/2009GL037278, 2009. Plant, W.J., R. Branch, G. Chatham, C.C. Chickadel, K. Hayes, B. Hayworth, A. Horner-Devine, A. Jessup, D.A. Fong, O.B. Fringer, S.N. Giddings, S. Monismith, and B. Wang, "Remotely sensed river surface features compared with modeling and in situ measurements," J. Geophys. Res., 114, doi:10.1029/2009JC005440, 2009. |
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Sensitive video, microwave radar, and infrared sensors capture small differences in surface water temperature and surface ripple patterns — important clues to what is happening below, out of sight. Anybody who wants to navigate a river would like to know where there are hazards to navigation, simply whether it’s deep or shallow so you can get a vessel in. It’s important for the Navy if they need to go into an area where they don’t have measurements. For operations they need to know how fast the river is flowing, how deep it is… So we are investigating the utility of remote sensing techniques to help inform them.
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