Drifters and Particle tracking Charles Seaton
Uses of drifters and particle tracking Search and Rescue: SAROPSSAROPS Oil Spills: GNOME (animation)GNOMEanimation Science: –Where does the water go? –Way to measure data at sea for extended periods of time. Planning: Where will the drifter go?
Particle tracking in the model Glider rescue: deling-technology-supports-glider- rescue deling-technology-supports-glider- rescue Glider rescue animation: ptrack2.avi ptrack2.avi Particle cloud animation: 3.avi 3.avi Particle tracking in Southern California: Particle tracking in CMOP model coming soon…
Drifter Programs CMOP drifters in model context: CMOP MATE Drifters (under development): ervation_network/driftermissionsmodel context ervation_network/driftermissions ARGO Floats: Global Drifters (in google maps) Global drifters: c_animations.php Southern California: ments/index.php (in google maps) c_animations.php ments/index.php zsize=10&zoomto=zoom&map.x=325&map.y=247&map=image&drifter=on&drifterid=111&backgrounds=None&marky=&markx=&llformat=DDMM&extent= &image=%2Fscripts%2Ftmp%2F4c3e0ff1_3eb8_3.PNG&tool=zoomin&mapwidth=550&mapheight=500
Ideas for drifters Message on an orange: 08.cfm 08.cfm Dr. Charles Tilburg dex.htm dex.htm Message in a bottle: 10-20% recovery rate! But you only get start and endpoint. Rubber duckies: eveningnews/main shtml eveningnews/main shtml MATE project: North East Fisheries Science Center: age/lob/driftdesign.html age/lob/driftdesign.html Gulf of Maine drifters: bin/ioos/drift/index.html bin/ioos/drift/index.html (both visualizations and descriptions of how to make inexpensive drifters)
Gulf of Maine River Plumes and HABs: Merrimack River Plume research: