An integrated approach to study Mud Banks of Alleppey Kerala using the Autonomous Vertical Profiler (AVP)

Author

Antonio, Mascarenhas ; Afzulpurkar, Sanjeev ; Navelkar, Gajanan ; Madhan, R. ; Maurya, Pramod ; Desa, Elgar ; Prabhudesai, Shivanand ; Dabholkar, Nitin ; Lamani, Vijaykumar ; Manoharan, Vignesh ; Naik, Nikhil ; Mahalunkar, Abhijit ; Naik, Onkar ; Thottam,

Author_Institution

Nat. Inst. of Oceanogr., Dona Paula, India

fYear

2015

fDate

23-25 Feb. 2015

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

Mud Banks of Kerala are areas of the sea adjoining the coast that have a special property of dampening the waves and creating clearly demarcated areas of calm water during the roughest monsoon conditions of the sea. It is believed that these areas have a muddy bottom and suspended muddy sediments in the water column. The mere existence of mud in an area is not enough to form mud banks. However the mud of the right texture needs to get consolidated at the right depth where wave action could churn it up into a thick suspension (Gopinathan, C. K. et al. 1974). The mud banks are of socio-economic importance for the fisheries industry.

Keywords

ocean composition; ocean temperature; sediments; turbidity; underwater optics; AD 2014 04 to 08; Alleppey; Kerala; PAR; VP profiling; autonomous vertical profiler; bottom layer; calm water areas; cellular network; chlorophyll; cyclonic conditions; dissolved oxygen; fisheries industry; midwaters; monsoonal conditions; mud banks; mud texture; muddy bottom; muddy sediments; national institute-of-oceanography; roughest monsoon conditions; sea coast; sea conductivity; sea temperature; sea waves; socioeconomic importance; surface mooring; turbidity variations; water column; water depth; wind gusts; Conductivity; Ocean temperature; Power capacitors; Sediments; Temperature sensors; Autonomous Vertical Profiler; Mud Banks; Turbidity;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Underwater Technology (UT), 2015 IEEE

Conference_Location

Chennai

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-8299-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/UT.2015.7108325

Filename

7108325