Benthic "weather" current meter array

An array of deep ocean current meters capable of resolving Reynolds stress, deployed on 10 km grid spacing over an area 100 km/spl times/100 km, can resolve benthic storms responsible for eroding and transporting sediment. The requirement for such an array is that the current meters be inexpensive yet capable of obtaining stress measurements. A design for both instrument and array must include power, logging, and noise considerations; recovery of instruments and/or data; and economics and logistics of deployment. A version of the Modular Acoustic Velocity Sensor, MAVS, is to be adapted to this task.