Deep sea currents
Deep sea currents
(OP)
Hello all,
Does anyone know where I can find information on deep sea currents in deep sea drilling areas? I need them so I can analyse the behavour of a frame being lowered through the water column to 10,000 feet.
Any help appreciated.
Thanks,
Graeme
Does anyone know where I can find information on deep sea currents in deep sea drilling areas? I need them so I can analyse the behavour of a frame being lowered through the water column to 10,000 feet.
Any help appreciated.
Thanks,
Graeme





RE: Deep sea currents
RE: Deep sea currents
If anyone else is reading this thread looking for similar data I have found a good site at:
http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/maps/ADCP_WestGulf.shtml
It has a list of all the drilling areas in the Gulf, with their depths and the current velocities at certain depths, with their directions. I think the deepest one is roughly 3,000 feet.
Does anyone have any idea where the details of currents (velocities and direction) nearer to 10,000 feet could be found?
Thanks,
Graeme
RE: Deep sea currents
If you are trying to design something somewhere I would expect you'd have to measure it, there.
Maybe you could talk to someone at MBARI or Woods Hole.
Keith Cress
Flamin Systems, Inc.- http://www.flaminsystems.com
RE: Deep sea currents
RE: Deep sea currents
The Scripps Institute had a deep water coring operation running in the Seventies. They have probably a database of worldwide deepsea currents.
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