Wave particle velocities measured with a Doppler current meter

A newly developed three-dimensional Doppler current meter is described and the results of preliminary field experiments are presented where simultaneous measurements of surface elevation and water velocity associated with wave orbital motion were made. The phase difference between the surface elevation and the vertical velocity measured at 1.0 and 0.45 meters below the mean water level is found to be approximately 90, in accord with the theory for surface waves of infinitesimally small amplitudes. The spectral (frequency) density distribution for velocity is also found to agree with that we would expect from the linear theory for the observed frequency distribution of surface elevation. However, the amplitude of velocity is consistently smaller (about 10 %) than that we would expect. This reduction of amplitude is more pronounced in cases where waves are high and the water depth is shallow.     

Acoustic Doppler current profiler performance in near surface andbottom boundaries

The authors discuss the current measurement accuracy of the RD Instruments 1200-kHz acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP) in the near surface and bottom boundaries. Data are presented from tests. In the first series of tests, an ADCP was mounted on a bottom sled in an upward looking mode. The sled was towed at known speeds with and without surface waves. Additionally, tests were conducted with several acoustic baffle designs installed in the transducer head. The 1200-kHz ADCP has the ability to accurately measure mean currents in a dynamic wave induced flow field. Sidelobes can bias the measurements at 85% of the range when bottom or surface boundaries are present. The amount of bias is strongly dependent on surface wave characteristics. Sidelobe bias can be eliminated with a properly designed baffle system. The profilers have the ability to measure wave particle velocities with a properly configured system     

A retrievable bottom-mounted current meter

The design and use of a lightweight, retrievable, bottom-mounted current meter for taking current measurements to ocean depths of 1800 m are described.     

Acoustic correlation current profiler

An acoustic correlation current profiler (ACCP) system is being developed to obtain vertical profiles of current velocities to ranges of approximately 1500 m. A single transmitter and a spatial array of eight receivers arranged in a novel geometry are employed to measure water mass displacement from receiver array cross-correlation functions. Test data from a shallow water ACCP operating at 76.8 kHz are presented and compared to model predictions as well as to velocity profiles obtained simultaneously during the tests from an adjacent acoustic Doppler current profiler. Additionally, predicted performance data for a lower frequency deep-water unit are presented     

Error analysis of an acoustic current meter

Accuracies of the benthic acoustic stress sensor (BASS) and the proposed modular acoustic velocity sensor (MAVS) are evaluated. A simple model of the hydrodynamic sources of error for acoustic current meters is presented and compared with the measured performance of BASS in a tow-tank and in field deployments. The sources of error addressed include those due to ideal flow around the sensor cage, wake effects from the support structure and transducers, vortex shedding from the cage, and electronic zero-point offsets. Electronic error dominates at velocities less than 5-10 cm/s, while flow disturbance dominates at higher speeds     

水声扩谱通讯中的自适应多普勒补偿方法

本文介绍了一种水声扩谱通讯中，应用子波对多普勒效应进行补偿的方法。针对多普勒效应本身是否会随时间变化，分别应用直接估计、自适应估计的方法。其中自适应多普勒补偿方法同自适应信道均衡算法结合在一起，对多普勒漂移、信道参数进行联合估计。两种方法都应用了子波变换对多普勒展宽程度进行估计并用线性插值进行补偿。计算机仿真结果令人满意。     

一种适用于水声通信的Doppler估计算法

在水下声通信中,收发双方相对运动产生的Doppler效应会导致信号的伸缩,引起信噪比的降级,需要采用Doppler补偿措施。在补偿前需要得到Doppler估计。文中提出了一种利用DFT进行Doppler估计的有效算法,该算法通过估计频率偏移来计算Doppler率。仿真结果验证了该算法的有效性。     

声学多普勒计程仪测速误差分析与补偿

主要分析了声学多普勒计程仪测速误差的主要来源,并针对载体的姿态误差提出有效的补偿方法,对多普勒计程仪的安装偏差、波束方向误差和电路设计误差等固定误差,通过标定试验给出多普勒计程仪的补偿系数,并验证其有效性.     

An acoustic current velocity meter for position instruments and probes

This paper considers the theoretical grounds for designing a new multi-component current velocity meter with a comprehensive beam pattern and minimum impact of structural elements on the measurement data. The effect of technological error on the sensor's ability to transmit acoustic signals is assessed. Information about the practical realization of the acoustic current velocity meter is provided, together with the results of its metrological tests. Translated by Vladimir A. Puchkin.     

Theoretical accuracy of Doppler navigation sonars and acoustic Doppler current profilers

This paper addresses the problem of Doppler shift estimation in Doppler sonar systems. The analysis focuses on the single-beam geometry formed by a circular planar array and considers both narrow-band (or so-called incoherent) and wide-band (or coherent) Doppler sonars, transmitting, respectively, one long continuous-wave pulse and a train of short continuous-wave pulses. The correlation function of the reverberation signal at the beam output is derived for volume reverberation. Directive transmission or reception and a combination of both is considered. Estimation theory is applied to derive the Cramer-Rao bound of the Doppler parameter estimate. The effect of pulse duration, sonar geometry, beamwidth, and signal-to-noise ratio are discussed. The accuracy of coherent and incoherent systems is compared for a specific case.     

A comparison of two Doppler current profilers

Two acoustic Doppler current profilers were tested in March 1988. The goal of the test setup was to compare two Doppler profilers under operational conditions in shallow waters. The two profilers involved were an RD-DR 1200 system and the profiler implementation on the Sonar Work Station of Rijkswaterstaat. In general, close correspondence was found between the two profilers, although under nonstationary current conditions large differences occurred. Water samples, taken at the test locations, have been analyzed with respect to mass concentration and particle size distribution. For some locations a poor correlation was found between these parameters and the received signal strength     

Multicarrier Communication Over Underwater Acoustic Channels With Nonuniform Doppler Shifts

Underwater acoustic (UWA) channels are wideband in nature due to the small ratio of the carrier frequency to the signal bandwidth, which introduces frequency-dependent Doppler shifts. In this paper, we treat the channel as having a common Doppler scaling factor on all propagation paths, and propose a two-step approach to mitigating the Doppler effect: 1) nonuniform Doppler compensation via resampling that converts a “wideband” problem into a “narrowband” problem and 2) high-resolution uniform compensation of the residual Doppler. We focus on zero-padded orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) to minimize the transmission power. Null subcarriers are used to facilitate Doppler compensation, and pilot subcarriers are used for channel estimation. The receiver is based on block-by-block processing, and does not rely on channel dependence across OFDM blocks; thus, it is suitable for fast-varying UWA channels. The data from two shallow-water experiments near Woods Hole, MA, are used to demonstrate the receiver performance. Excellent performance results are obtained even when the transmitter and the receiver are moving at a relative speed of up to 10 kn, at which the Doppler shifts are greater than the OFDM subcarrier spacing. These results suggest that OFDM is a viable option for high-rate communications over wideband UWA channels with nonuniform Doppler shifts.      

安德拉RCM—4S型海流计的一种使用技巧

对安德拉仪器公司生产的RCM - 4S型海流计在使用过程中出现的问题,给出了合理的解决办法.论述了2542型转子计数器的设计原理,对操作手册中某些未说明部分给出了使用说明.并讨论了流速测量的上限问题.     

声学多普勒剖面流速仪检测方法探讨

声学多普勒剖面流速仪(Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler,简称ADCP)在国内海洋调查和水文监测行业应用越来越广泛,但是作为一种计量仪器还没有行之有效的检测方法,这对仪器的使用、数据的质量控制造成很大影响。文中对国内外ADCP现场和实验室的检测方法进行了研究探讨,提出了ADCP的检测参数以及现场和实验室检测的技术难点,并对今后ADCP的检测工作给出几点建议。     

A shipborne- type wave-height meter for oceangoing vessels, using microwave Doppler radar

A wave-height meter using a simple microwave Doppler radar,simeq10mW in power and 10.525 GHz in frequency, is proposed so that we can measure oceanic waves effectively while the ship is steaming. It was first applied to the measurement of the variation of water level generated in a wave tank, which suggested that it is adequately applicable to the measurement of oceanic waves. A field test was carried out off the cape of Nojimazaki by installing the Doppler radar 5 m above the sea level at the bow of the ship. The result agreed reasonably well with that measured simultaneously by the ultrasonic wave-height meter installed at the same position. Another test is running successfully on a larger ship with the wave-height meter installed at 9 m above the sea level. The significant wave height measured by the present meter is being compared with that observed visually by the navigation officers.     

Performance of a broad-band acoustic Doppler current profiler

A new broadband acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP) is described, with a useful range comparable to that of a commercially available narrowband (incoherent) system of the same acoustic frequency, but having enhanced performance. The extra performance may be traded off among (1) reduced velocity variance, (2) reduced averaging time, and (3) finer depth resolution. This improvement permits the observation of phenomena with smaller time and space scales than is now possible with available ADCPs. An expression predicting r.m.s. velocity error in terms of system parameters and the measured acoustic data is given and is shown to be consistent with the independently measured velocity error among redundant beams. Two major sources of bias error in incoherent ADCPs are shown to be much reduced for the broadband system. Field data demonstrating the improved performance over the existing incoherent ADCP are shown for cases of both strong and weak shear     

水声时变信道下OFDM系统运动多普勒补偿

通信节点之间相对移动产生的多普勒频率变化将会造成正交频分复用(Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing,OFDM)系统子载波干扰,影响OFDM通信系统性能.针对由收发端相对运动引起的子信道干扰,提出了PEMD-WFFT(Pilot Empirical Mode Decompo...     

Degradation of some mechanical current meter measurements byhigh-frequency mooring or wave motion

Comparison of current measurements from moored (paddle-wheel rotor) Aanderaa current meters and acoustic Doppler current profilers in a strong tidal flow on Georges Bank indicates rate under-reading by the Aanderaa meters at some vertical positions. The under-reading may arise from mooring-line vibrations induced by vortex shedding from spherical buoyancy packages, and shielding of the paddle-wheel rotors due to the meters' inability to remain aligned with the fluctuating relative water velocity. Field tests and a simple model are used to investigate this explanation. The authors briefly review the Georges Bank observations that instigated this investigation. An explanation for the degradation of the Aanderaa measurements is proposed, observational information from field tests is discussed, and the model and its implications are presented. The model results support the hypothesis that high-frequency mooring-line vibration causes the degradation of the Aanderaa measurements