159
Satellite-borne scatterometers, 27
Savonius-rotor meters, 13
Scientific research, 147
Sea bottom emplacements (SBEs), 72
vertical profilers, 73
Search and Rescue Optimal Planning System
(SAROPS), 120
Sea-surface temperature (SST), 5
Seawater temperature
electronic circuits, 10
oceanographic applications, 10
resistance thermometer detectors, 10
thermistor temperature detector, 10–11
Short Term Predictive System (STPS), 120
Short wave infrared (SWIR), 62
Signal conditioning
ADC, 102
analog and digital, 102
data precision, 102, 103
electronic noise, 103
environmental sensor, 103
frequency signal, 103
GTS, 103
quantization, 102, 103
radio AM and FM, 104
resolution, 102
satellite-aided, 109–110
sensor signals, 101
superimposed sinusoidal variations, 103
transmissions, 104
Significant wave height (SWH), 120
Simulating Waves Nearshore (SWAN)
model, 119
Skill assessment, 128
Slack chain configuration, 69
Slick ocean surfaces, 54
Slip-ring devices, 74
Solar panels and wind turbines, 69
Sound attenuation, 15
Spectral band-difference algorithms, 62
Spectrometers imaging, 12
Spectrophotometer, 28, 46
Spectrophotometric parameterization, 51
Stakeholder input, 136, 138
Standard Seawater, 31
Stilling wells, 67
Structured grids, 116
Structured Query Language (SQL), 131
Sub-sampling, 141
Surface colonization, 97
Surface seawater salinity (SSS), 32
System design, 142
System maintenance, 146
T
Telemetry, 4
The CARICOOS Nearshore Wave
Model, 119
Thematic Real-time Environmental
Distributed Data Services
(THREDDS), 131
Thermistors, 87
Thermometers, 10
Towed undulating vehicle, 76
Transmissometers, 30
Trawl resistant frame, 73
Turbidity meters, 30
U
Underwater gliders, 80–82
University Corporation for Atmospheric
Research (UCAR), 131
Unmanned surface vehicle (USV), 78
Unstructured grids, 118
US Pacific Islands Ocean Observing System
(PacIOOS), 79
US Virgin Islands (USVI), 138
W
Wave model, 118–120
Wave powered surface vehicle, 79
Western tropical Atlantic Ocean (WTA), 138
Wet chemistry, 42, 46, 47
World Ocean Circulation Experiment
(WOCE), 77
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