AXBT Measurements in the Norwegian and Iceland Seas, May 1987

Operational components of the United States Navy are becoming increasingly interested in the potential of coupled ocean-acoustic forecast systems for improving weapons effectiveness predictions. Such systems would combine in situ and remotely sensed data, historical databases, ocean hydrodynamic and...

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Main Author: Boyd, Janice D.
Other Authors: NAVAL OCEAN RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITY STENNIS SPACE CENTER MS
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 1988
Subjects:
Physical and Dynamic Oceanography
*BATHYTHERMOGRAPH DATA
ICELAND
POLAR REGIONS
PERFORMANCE(ENGINEERING)
PHYSICAL PROPERTIES
EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN
NAVY
FORECASTING
PROFILES
MATHEMATICAL PREDICTION
WEAPON SYSTEM EFFECTIVENESS
DATA ACQUISITION
ACOUSTICS
CHARTS
OCEAN MODELS
OCEAN ENVIRONMENTS
NORWEGIAN SEA
HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEYING
FRONTS(OCEANOGRAPHY)
MILITARY OCEANOGRAPHY
DATA PROCESSING
MILITARY FORCES(UNITED STATES)
ICELAND SEA
PE62435N
Norwegian Sea
Iceland
Online Access:http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA201056
http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA201056
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Summary:Operational components of the United States Navy are becoming increasingly interested in the potential of coupled ocean-acoustic forecast systems for improving weapons effectiveness predictions. Such systems would combine in situ and remotely sensed data, historical databases, ocean hydrodynamic and thermodynamic numerical models and acoustic performance prediction models to given an improved picture of the ocean environment both in a 'nowcast' and in a forecast mode. The Tactical Oceanography Program is a major focal point in NORDA's development, testing and delivery of such systems. This note discusses the experimental design, data collection and processing, and some preliminary results from the First Tactical Oceanography Project Prediction Experiment in the Norwegian and Iceland Seas in May 1987. Detailed charts of the survey positions are presented, as well as plots of all of the profiles. A more complete presentation of the descriptive findings from the experiment is given in the companion NORDA TN-341: Environmental Conditions in the Norwegian and Iceland Seas, May 1987 by J. Boyd. Keywords: Norwegian Sea, Physical oceanography, Oceanographic fronts, Polar regions, Bathythermograph data.

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