Abstract
The Cabled Observatory Vent Imaging Sonar (COVIS) was deployed at the Main Endeavour Field node of the Canadian NEPTUNE cabled observatory in September 2010 and has acquired long time series on plume and diffuse hydrothermal flows. This talk will focus on recent efforts by the Rutgers-APL collaboration to invert sonar data to determine heat flux from the Grotto plume complex. Inversion employs plume theory to relate velocity as determined by Doppler shift to buoyancy flux, hence heat flux. The primary uncertainties have to do with plume bending due to ambient current and short sampling times relative to dynamic changes in plume shape. These uncertainties have been quantified by means of special high-statistics experiments using COVIS. Time series for heat flux will be compared with ground truth obtained by thermometry using an ROV. [Work supported by NSF Grants OCE-0824612 and OCE-0825088.]
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