submitted for presentation at upcoming IEEE/MTSOceans09 International Conference to be held in Biloxi, MS,October 2009 – currently awaiting acceptance. Fulford, Janice M., Davies, William J., “Radar Water-LevelMeasurement for Open Channels”, Proceedings of ThirdInternational Conference on Irrigation and Drainage (USCID), San Diego, CA, 2005. Fulford, Janice M., Ester, L., Heaton...

Present global ocean tide models based on the TOPEX/POSEIDON satellite data are still not accurate enough on the continental shelves for detailed oceanographic studies. The need for increasing accuracy in shelf regions calls for inclusion of more than just semidiurnal and diurnal constituents in future global ocean tide models. This study is an extension to previous investigations on the Northw...

Collecting information on suspended sediments concentration (SSC) in coastal waters and estuaries is vital for proper management of coastal environments. Traditionally, SSC used to be measured by time consuming and costly point measurements. This method allows the accurate measurement of SSC only for a point in space and time. Remote sensing from air-borne and space-borne sensors have proved to...

The ability to track the dynamics of processes in natural water bodies on a global scale, and at a resolution that enables highly localised behaviour to be visualized, is an ideal scenario for understanding how local events can influence the global environment. While advances in in-situ chem/bio-sensing continue to be reported, costs and reliability issues still inhibit the implementation of la...

[1] Satellite gravity measurements from the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) provide new quantitative measures of the 2005 extreme drought event in the Amazon river basin, regarded as the worst in over a century. GRACE measures a significant decrease in terrestrial water storage (TWS) in the central Amazon basin in the summer of 2005, relative to the average of the 5 other summer...

Early works have shown that highly reproducible piezoelectric film PVDF (Poly(vinylidene fluoride)) can be reliably used in a wide range of precise stress and stress-rate measurements. The direct stress-derivative or stress-rate PVDF signals have nanosecond resolution and higher operating stress limits than any other technique. Uses of PVDF stress gauges have been conducted in many fields of sh...

Wind and temperature observations in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere (MLT) from the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) reveal strong seasonal variations of tides, a dominant component of the MLT dynamics. Simulations with the Spectral mesosphere/lower thermosphere model (SMLTM) for equinox and solstice conditions are presented and compared with the observations. The diurnal tide i...