Arctic Research in Environmental Acoustics (AREA) Technical Report No. 1: The SYNRAMS Ice Station.

• Main Authors: Burke,S. P., Buck,B. M.
• Other Authors: POLAR RESEARCH LAB INC SANTA BARBARA CALIF
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1976
• Subjects: Physical and Dynamic Oceanography; Acoustics; *OCEANOGRAPHIC EQUIPMENT; DATA TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS; OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA; REMOTE DETECTORS; DATA ACQUISITION; AMBIENT NOISE; UNDERWATER SOUND; ARCTIC REGIONS; ARCTIC OCEAN; Synoptic random access measurement system; SYNRAMS ice station; NIMBUS 6 satellite; Most Project-2; Arctic; Arctic Ocean
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA021138; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA021138

A low power, unattended, ice station for collecting data has been developed to collect synoptic environmental data in polar regions for a period of two years. An array of 10 of these ice stations was installed 250-550 nautical miles north of the Alaskan coast during the spring of 1975. In each station, 24 hours worth of the most recent data, made up of eight 32-bit words, are retained in memory for burst transmission to the RAMS (Random Access Measurement System) receiver in the polar orbiting NIMBUS-F satellite. Surface platform location to a CPE of about 5 KM is obtained through doppler measurement of the transmitted signal. Pub. in IEEE Ocean '75 p413-417 1975.