Optics, Acoustics, and Stress in a Nearshore Bottom Nepheloid Layer
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The approach is to obtain measurements that will permit comparisons of temporal evolution of bottom stress, suspended particle size, and optical and acoustical properties in the bottom boundary layer. The instrumentation is mounted on bottom tripods and an I-beam frame. The “OASIS” tripod includes a 9wavelength optical attenuation and absorption meter (WetLabs ac-9, with automated dissolved measurement for calibration-independent particulate measurements), LISST-100 (Type B) and LISSTFloc laser diffraction particle sizers (Agrawal & Pottsmith 2000), a digital floc camera (DFC) (Curran et al. 2002), a Tracor Acoustic Profiling System (TAPS), and an array of SonTek/YSI acoustic Doppler
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