The Robots Come to the Monterey Bay Steven R. Ramp Outline • Discuss program goals and operations • Show and explain instruments/hardware • Describe data communications Activities in the Monterey Bay During August 2006 (MB06) • The Adaptive Sampling and Prediction System (ASAP) • Persistent Littoral Undersea Surveilence Network (PLUSnet) • Assessing the Effects of Submesoscale Parameterizations (AESOP) • Layered Organization of the Coastal Ocean (LOCO) MBO6 Ship/Aircraft Time Line Version 8, July 19, 2006 Healey CYPR. SEA Cowles THOMPSON Ramp TWIN OTTER Chavez ZEPHYR Davis (as needed) Davis (as needed) McDonald Davis SHANA RAE Pinkel/Klymak FLIP Lee/D’Asaro Gregg/Miller REVELLE Johnston/Rudnick WECOMA D’Spain SPROUL Stewart/Schmidt NEW HORZ Denny MONTAGUE Chavez/Ramp Sanford Kunze/Girton Leonard Ramp Chavez POINT SUR 14 21 28 4 11 18 25 1 8 15 July August Sept PPLLUUSSNNeett MMBB0066 OOppeerraattiinngg AArreeaass ASAP Slocums (6) 0 5 10 Dorado (1) nm Bluefin (2) REMUS (2) Sprays (4) Solar AUV (1) LOCO Slocum (2) PLUS MBARI M0 AESOP M1 M2 FLIP (tent.) The Adaptive Sampling and Prediction (ASAP) Program Learn how to deploy, direct, and utilize autonomous vehicles most efficiently to sample the ocean, assimilate the data into numerical models in real or near-real time, and predict future conditions with minimal error. ASAP Science Goal Close the heat budget in a three dimensional upwelling center in a major eastern boundary current Nominal REMUS Line Sanctuary ASAP Boundary Plan Nominal ASAP Box Nominal DORADO Line Glider ADCP Mooring • Princeton University – Control Theory, Adaptive Sampling • Naval Postgraduate School – Aircraft, Real-Time Bottom Moorings, AUVs, Seaweb • Harvard University – Numerical Modeling and Prediction • Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Odyssey AUVs, Autonomous Kayaks, Acoustic Data Assimilation (ADA) • Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution The – Shallow Water Gliders • Scripps Institution of Oceanography Players – Deep Water Gliders • California Institute of Technology – Lagrangian Coherent Structures • MBARI – DORADO AUV The Players – Data Management (continued) – Virtual Control Room • NRL – The ICON Model, COAMPS Model • JPL/CalTech – Regional Ocean Modeling System (ROMS) • Un. Of Miami – Atmospheric Modeling and Prediction
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