| Hudson River |
Hartmut
Peters |
In May 2001, we returned to the
Hudson River in the New York City area to explore the spatial
variability of turbulent mixing. Working from the R/V "Lionel A.
Walford" of the New Jersey Marine Sciences Consortium, we took sections
with the "Shallow Water Microstructure Profiler" (SWAMP) and an ADCP
mounted over the side. We focused on the vicinity of the George
Washington Bridge where varying channel cross section and curvature
appear to give rise to hydraulic control. The last 2 days of our
operations were coordinated with a dye release experiment done by Bob
Chant, Rocky Geyer and Bob Houghton (Rutgers, Woods Hole, Lamont,
respectively). It appears to be the first time ever that turbulent
mixing in an estuary was simultaneously observed through dye dispersion
and microstructure measurements. For more detail see the cruise
report. Scientific results are reported in
Peters
(2003). Funded by the Hudson River Foundation. |
Suburban oceanography...
...working
under the George Washington Bridge