Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Measurements of Arctic Change due to Atlantic Inflow

自主水下航行器测量大西洋流入导致的北极变化

• 批准号: 9910290
• 负责人: James Bellingham
• 金额: $ 203.32万
• 依托单位: Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2000
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2000-10-01 至 2006-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9910290&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Autonomous; Underwater; Vehicle; Measurements; Arctic

This project will develop an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) for use under the Arctic pack ice. The AUV will be equipped with oceanographic instruments that will be used to collect data along a chosen bathymetric contour. The instrument will send up data packages in a pod that melts through the ice and telemeters the data through a satellite to a base station. Most of the development costs have been borne by National Oceanographic Partnerships Program. This project serves as a proof-of-concept testing of the instrument package developed with that funding. The scientific application of the measurement system is to collect data to study the warm Atlantic layer incursion into the Arctic that has caused a fundamental change in Arctic circulation and may be linked to a larger Arctic warming. The AUV will provide a means for collecting data remotely and quickly under the pack ice where other systems require human intervention at a much greater logistical cost and risk in a very hazardous environment.

该项目将开发一种在北极浮冰下使用的自主水下航行器（AUV）。 自动潜航器将配备海洋学仪器，用于沿着选定的等深线收集数据。 该仪器将在一个吊舱中发送数据包，该吊舱通过冰层融化并通过卫星将数据遥测到基站。 大部分开发费用由国家海洋学伙伴关系方案承担。 该项目是对利用该资金开发的成套仪器进行概念验证测试。 该测量系统的科学应用是收集数据，研究大西洋暖层侵入北极，造成北极环流的根本变化，并可能与更大的北极变暖有关。 AUV将提供一种在浮冰下远程和快速收集数据的手段，而其他系统需要在非常危险的环境中以更大的后勤成本和风险进行人为干预。