Articles | Volume 18, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-18-389-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-18-389-2022
Technical note
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24 Mar 2022
Technical note |  | 24 Mar 2022

Technical note: Turbulence measurements from a light autonomous underwater vehicle

Eivind H. Kolås, Tore Mo-Bjørkelund, and Ilker Fer

Data sets

Dissipation measurements from AUV transects across a surface temperature front in the Barents Sea Ilker Fer, Tore Mo-Bjørklund, and Eivind Kolås https://doi.org/10.21335/NMDC-1821443450

Arctic Ocean – Sea and Ice Surface Temperature E.U. Copernicus Marine Service Information https://doi.org/10.48670/MOI-00130

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Short summary
A turbulence instrument was installed on a light autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) and deployed in the Barents Sea in February 2021. We present the data quality and discuss limitations when measuring turbulence from the AUV. AUV vibrations contaminate the turbulence measurements, yet the measurements were sufficiently cleaned when the AUV operated in turbulent environments. In quiescent environments the noise from the AUV became relatively large, making the turbulence measurements unreliable.