Journal
OCEAN ENGINEERING
Volume 219, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.oceaneng.2020.108292
Keywords
Reciprocal acoustic transmissions; Current velocity measurement; High-frequency variation in tidal currents; Comparison with ADCP observations
Funding
- Hiroshima Research and Engineering Office for Port and Airport
- JSPS KAKENHI [19H04292, 20K14964, 20H02369]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [20H02369, 20K14964, 19H04292] Funding Source: KAKEN
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The study found that reciprocal acoustic transmissions can effectively measure tidal currents, especially high-frequency variations. Results showed that the measurement noise of the estimated currents was small enough to accurately capture variations even with periods considerably shorter than M2 tide, improving the capability to reproduce current velocity fields when inversion or data assimilation methods are applied.
Observations of ocean currents are important information in the fields of ocean science and engineering. Reciprocal acoustic transmissions have the potential to operationally measure tidal currents in coastal seas. This study investigates the capability of the reciprocal transmissions to measure tidal currents, particularly in relation to high-frequency variations. We conducted a reciprocal acoustic transmission experiment in an area of complex coastlines in the Seto Inland Sea, Japan, in October 2019. During this experiment, a burst transmission was used, and the system performed six transmissions with 1-min intervals between them every 10 min. The estimated path-averaged currents agreed with the currents obtained from a shipboard acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP) on an hourly basis and had captured high-frequency variations that were not captured by the hourly ADCP observations. The measurement noise of the estimated currents, which was determined as the variation within the six transmissions, was 2.5 cm s(-1) and was small enough to trace the variations in the currents over the time series even for the variations with periods considerably shorter than M2 tide. The reciprocal transmission's capability to capture high-frequency variations will improve the capability to reproduce current velocity fields when inversion or data assimilation methods are applied.
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