Quantifying the Contribution of Fronts to the Mixing Budget of a Tidally Pulsed River Plume Using the T-REMUS Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV)

Nikiforos Delatolas1, Daniel G MacDonald2, James Herbert Leidhold3, Ágata Piffer Braga4, Kelly L Cole5, Kimberly Huguenard6, Michael M Whitney7 and Preston Spicer6, (1)University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, New Bedford, MA, United States, (2)U Mass/Dartmouth-Est&Ocean Sci, Fairhaven, MA, United States, (3)UMASS Dartmouth, Civil and Environmental Engineering, N. Dartmouth, MA, United States, (4)University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, MA, United States, (5)University of Maine, School of Marine Sciences, Walpole, ME, United States, (6)University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States, (7)University of Connecticut, Marine Sciences, Groton, CT, United States