Linear regression models of sound velocity in the North Atlantic Ocean below a critical depth

• Main Author: Kunkel, Richard Roland
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Scholars' Mine 1970
• Subjects: Oceanography > Research Oceanography > Research > North Atlantic Ocean Regression analysis > Data processing; Engineering; Geophysics and Seismology; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/doctoral_dissertations/2202; https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3204&context=doctoral_dissertations

"Sound velocity models currently in use by the U. S. Navy require difficult data sampling at great expense. This study is to investigate the feasibility of a sound velocity model dependent only upon position that would be valid for a selected, reasonably large, near homogeneous area of the ocean. The most important position parameters are latitude, longitude, and depth. To accomplish this objective a critical depth of 2500 meters was established for an 8° by 20° rectangle of the Sargasso Sea which lies within the North Atlantic Ocean. The critical depth is defined as the depth at which the characteristics of the area of the ocean being considered become stable enough to predict sound velocity as a function of position within a specified accuracy. Such a model was produced with the aid of new concepts of independent term generation within stepwise multiple regression software that allowed a study of a variety of models with unprecedented ease"--Abstract, Page ii.