Capt. Marcus Thorne Fighting the Vertical Shear of the Kem Shelf The Surface is a Liar: Dealing with Kem's Water Column If you've spent any time off the coast of Kem, around 16.1°N, you know the surface current is a liar. You can be sitting in a gentle eastward dri... ADCP Hydrography Dec 6, 2024 ADCP
Dr. Alistair Vance Field Deployment Report: Bottom-Mounted ADCP in the Megara Port Basin Deployment Notes: Megara Port, Greece – Autumn Field Session The humidity was stifling as we stepped off the quay at Megara Port just after 05:00. The air smelled of diesel and salt, and the water in ... ADCP Hydrography Dec 6, 2024 ADCP
Dr. Alistair Vance Field Deployment Report: Bottom-Mounted ADCP Velocity Profiling in the Bay of Havana Deployment Notes: Havana Basin, October 2023 We hit the water at 04:30, hoping to catch the flood tide before the midday heat turned the harbor into a sauna. The air was thick, smelling of salt and di... ADCP Hydrography Dec 6, 2024 ADCP
Dr. Alistair Vance Quantifying Monsoon-Driven Velocity Shifts and Benthic Boundary Layer Dynamics in the Gwadar Port Approach Seasonal Velocity Inversions and the Arabian Sea Monsoon Influence The coastal waters off Gwadar, situated roughly at 24.8°N, 63.2°E, exhibit an aggressive seasonal oscillation that baffles standard l... ADCP Oceangraphy Dec 6, 2024 ADCP
Sarah Jenkins Hydrographic Study of the Caniçal Port Coastal System and Madeira's Eastern Shelf The Volcanic Architecture of Caniçal: Navigating Madeira's Eastern Seaboard Caniçal Port sits on the rugged eastern tip of Madeira Island, Portugal, roughly at 32.7°N, 17.1°W. This isn't your typical ... ADCP Hydrography Dec 6, 2024 ADCP
Sarah Jenkins Field Deployment Report: Bottom-Mounted ADCP Profiling in Heraklion Port, Crete Deployment Notes: Heraklion Port, Crete – October 2023 The wind was whipping across the quay when we hit the docks at 05:00. I could smell the salt and the faint scent of diesel from the ferry lines. ... ADCP Hydrography Dec 6, 2024 ADCP
Dr. Kenji Sato Atimonan Port’s Tidal Flux vs. Typical Philippine Coastline Currents: A Comparative Deployment Study Atimonan Port vs. Regional Philippine Basins: A Hydrodynamic Comparison Measuring currents in Atimonan Port isn't a standard exercise. Most coastal sites in the Philippines follow predictable open-coa... ADCP Hydrography Dec 5, 2024 ADCP
Dr. Kenji Sato Field Deployment Report: Velocity Profiling in the Bay of Saint-Brieuc Deployment Notes: Bay of Saint-Brieuc, Brittany, France The wind was biting as we pushed off from the quay in Saint-Brieuc. It is a beautiful city, known for its half-timbered houses and the smell of ... ADCP Hydrography Dec 5, 2024 ADCP
Capt. Marcus Thorne Hydrographic Study of the Montrose Basin and North Sea Coastal Interface The Geomorphological Volatility of the Montrose Basin Montrose sits at a precarious geographic junction around 56.6°N, 2.6°W, where the freshwater discharge of the Firth of Tay collides with the aggre... ADCP Hydrography Dec 5, 2024 ADCP
Capt. Marcus Thorne ADCP Deployment at Cape Town Port: A Quick Technical Brief Measuring Currents at Cape Town Port: What Engineers Need to Know Cape Town Port faces a brutal convergence of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. Strong southeasterly winds (the "Cape Doctor") drive unpr... ADCP Hydrography Dec 5, 2024 ADCP
Dr. Kenji Sato Field Deployment Report: Bottom-Mounted ADCPs along the Dahaban Coastline Deployment Notes: Dahaban Coastal Sector, October 2023 We hit the shoreline at Dahaban just as the first light broke over the horizon. The air was thick with salt and the smell of drying nets from the... ADCP Oceangraphy Dec 5, 2024 ADCP
Jack Law ADCP in Agioi Theodoroi Port: Ocean Current Measurement 1. Where is Agioi Theodoroi Port? 2. Why should we measure the ocean currents in the Agioi Theodoroi Port? 3. How do ADCPs using the Doppler principle work? 4. What’s needed for high-quality measureme... ADCP Hydrography Dec 5, 2024 ADCP