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| Name: | acoustic doppler current profiler |
| Acronym: | ADCP |
| Description: | An Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP or ADP) is a sonar that attempts to produce a record of water current velocities for a range of depths. They are made of ceramic materials, and contain transducers, an amplifier, a receiver, a mixer, an oscillator, a clock, a temperature sensor, a compass, a pitch and roll sensor, and computer components to save the information collected. ADCPs can be configured in many ways: side-listening, into rivers and canals for long term continuous discharge measurements, downward-listening and mounted on boats for instantaneous surveys in the ocean or rivers, and mounted on moorings, or the seabed for long term current & wave studies. They can stay underwater for years at a time, and have a battery back for an energy source. The sonar is used for oceanography, estuary, river and stream flow measurement, and weather forecasting. |
| Type: | Noun |
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