RUSSIAN JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES, VOL. 19, ES1001, doi:10.2205/2018ES000642, 2019

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• Abstract
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Materials and Methods
  • 2.1. Requirements for Drifters
  • 2.2. Low Cost GPS/GSM/GPRS Lagrangian Mini-Drifter
• 3. Results and Discussions
  • 3.1. Comparison of Results Obtained by Lagrangian Mini-Drifters and ADCP Subsection
  • 3.2. Comparison of Results Obtained by Lagrangian Mini-Drifters and Numerical Simulation
  • 3.3. Case Studies of Coastal Currents by Mini-Drifters
• 4. Conclusions
• Acknowledgments
• References

• Figure 1. Mini-drifter structure: 1 – GPS/GSM tracker in a waterproof...
• Figure 2. Mini-drifter deployment: 1 – Underwater sail launch; and...
• Figure 3. Area of ADCP/mini-drifters joint experiment in the Black Sea...
• Figure 4. Results of the ADCP/mini-drifters joint experiment. Mini-drifter...
• Figure 5. Current distributions determined with ADCP versus depth...
• Figure 6. The Area of field experiments from 2014–2017 in the southeastern...
• Figure 7. Results of the numerical modeling and mini-drifters joint experiment....
• Figure 8. Lagrangian mini-drifter trajectory during 2016 field experiments....
• Figure 9. The wind field (blue arrows), according to the HILRAM reanalysis...
• Figure 10. Lagrangian mini-drifter trajectories during the 2015 field experiments....
• Figure 11. The wind field (blue arrows), according to the HILRAM reanalysis...
• Figure 12. Vortex structures in the area of the drifter experiment. Fragment...

 
Citation: Krayushkin Evgeny, Olga Lavrova, Alexey Strochkov (2019), Application of GPS/GSM Lagrangian mini-drifters for coastal ocean dynamics analysis, Russ. J. Earth Sci., 19, ES1001, doi:10.2205/2018ES000642.
 

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