AXBT Measurements in the Norwegian and Iceland Seas, May 1987

• 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

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.