Minas Passage Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler 400 kHz Deployed 2016-01-29

The Nortek AWAC AST 400 kHz 2226 was deployed on 2016-01-29 at Minas Passage. The Minas Basin is an inlet of the Bay of Fundy and a sub-basin of the Fundy Basin located in Nova Scotia, Canada. This device is a Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler 400 kHz. Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers are hydroacoustic instruments, similar to sonars. ADCPs measure current speed and direction at multiple predetermined depths simultaneously. ADCPs use the Doppler effect of sound waves that are scattered by particles in seawater over a depth range. It was deployed on a fixed platform. Data from this deployment were archived and made available through Ocean Networks Canada's Oceans 2.0 digital infrastructure, with quality assurance and derived data products following established practices.