Animation of “dye” concentration from New River Inlet on May 11th 2012. Dye concentration is derived by differencing measured light at two wavelengths and is indicated by the black color. Dye is released in a single bomb up the inlet ~500 m from the junction with the inter-coastal waterwaterway (ICW). It propagates downstreamon the ebb tide. Unlike previous releases, the … Read More
Airborne Dye Movie from May 8th
We’ve also gotten the May 8th dye movie put together. Check out the youtube video or the link to the .mov file below. The dye qualitatively behaves similar to on May 7th (see previous post). However, the dye does not get advected as far downcoast. However, there are a number of coherent structures clearly visible in the dye field. The … Read More
Airborne dye movie from May 7 2012
We’ve been busy processing up the RIVET I data from the New River Inlet, which we will be posting to our ftp site soon. We’ve also been working up the airborne observations (in collaboration with Luc Lenain & the Melville lab). The video below shows a visualization of the May 7th dye release. Animation of repeated airborne passes of the … Read More