Ocean acoustic tomography is a technique used to measure temperatures and currents over large regions of the ocean. On ocean basin scales, this technique...
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Tomography is imaging by sections or sectioning that uses any kind of penetrating wave. The method is used in radiology, archaeology, biology, atmospheric...
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Walter Munk (section Ocean acoustic tomography)
and Carl Wunsch developed ocean acoustic tomography to exploit the ease with which sound travels in the ocean and use acoustical signals for measurement...
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impact and location of test missile nose cones Ocean acoustic tomography: A technique to measure ocean temperatures and currents by the time delay of...
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to determine the depth of water (bathymetry). It involves transmitting acoustic waves into water and recording the time interval between emission and return...
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devices to measure ocean temperatures at different depths. These include the Nansen bottle, bathythermograph, CTD, or ocean acoustic tomography. Moored and drifting...
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An acoustic doppler current profiler (ADCP) is a hydroacoustic current meter similar to a sonar, used to measure water current velocities over a depth...
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Physical oceanography (redirect from Ocean physics)
conditions and physical processes within the ocean, especially the motions and physical properties of ocean waters. Physical oceanography is one of several...
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Ray tracing (physics) (section Ocean acoustics)
refraction Gradient-index optics List of ray tracing software Ocean acoustic tomography Ray tracing (graphics) Ray transfer matrix analysis Peterson,...
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Greenland Plain (category Oceanic basins of the Arctic Ocean)
smaller ridge to the Boreas Abyssal Plain in the North. In 1988/89 ocean acoustic tomography was performed there to study the Greenland Sea gyre and deep water...
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SOSUS (redirect from Equatorial Pacific Ocean autonomous hydrophone array)
Laboratory, University of Washington has used the system for Ocean Acoustic Tomography. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Vents program at...
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Underwater acoustics (redirect from Acoustic survey)
global ocean through underwater acoustics ASA Underwater Acoustics Technical Committee An Ocean of Sound Underwater Acoustic Communications Acoustic Communications...
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inputs for another Ocean acoustic tomography – A technique used to measure temperatures and currents over large regions of the ocean Ocean thermal energy...
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Undersea mountain range (category Coastal and oceanic landforms)
specifically under the surface of an ocean. If originated from current tectonic forces, they are often referred to as a mid-ocean ridge. In contrast, if formed...
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Urbana–Champaign Carl Wunsch (1941–), physical oceanography and ocean acoustic tomography Shang-Ping Xie (born 1963), climatologist and oceanographer of...
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3°03′S 160°23′E / 3.050°S 160.383°E / -3.050; 160.383 An oceanic or submarine plateau is a large, relatively flat elevation that is higher than the...
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portal GOOS Global Earth Observing System of Systems (GEOSS) Ocean acoustic tomography Argo (oceanography) Alliance for Coastal Technologies Omnibus...
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Locating System (MILS) is an ocean acoustic system designed to locate the impact position of test missile nose cones at the ocean's surface and then the position...
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heating rate during that 14-year span. Oceans portal Ocean acoustic tomography Underwater gliders Integrated Ocean Observing System Argo Begins Systematic...
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Fisheries acoustics (section Acoustic cameras)
research and practical application topics using acoustical devices as sensors in aquatic environments. Acoustical techniques can be applied to sensing aquatic...
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Bahama Banks (category Undersea banks of the Atlantic Ocean)
The slopes around them however, such as the border of the Tongue of the Ocean in the Great Bahama Bank, are very steep. The Banks were dry land during...
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Water wave mechanics for engineers and scientists. Advanced Series on Ocean Engineering. Vol. 2. World Scientific, Singapore. ISBN 978-981-02-0420-4...
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in the thermocline, for example at intermediate water depths below the ocean's mixed layer. The most important component of these platforms is fine-grained...
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uses impulsive sounds in the deep sound channel (SOFAR channel) of the ocean to enable pinpointing of the location of ships or crashed planes. The deep...
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seamounts located under the world's oceans. There are estimated to be 40,000 to 55,000 seamounts in the global oceans. Almost all are not well-mapped and...
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Romm, Joseph Jacob. "Applications of Normal Mode Analysis to Ocean Acoustic Tomography", American Doctoral Dissertations, Source code: X1987, Massachusetts...
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Acoustic tags are small sound-emitting devices that allow the detection and/or remote tracking of organisms in aquatic ecosystems. Acoustic tags are commonly...
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Wunsch, The Ocean Circulation Inverse Problem, 1996. ISBN 0-521-48090-6 Walter Munk, Peter Worcester, and Carl Wunsch, Ocean Acoustic Tomography, Cambridge...
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Lagrangian ocean analysis is a way of analysing ocean dynamics by computing the trajectories of virtual fluid particles, following the Lagrangian perspective...
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and Tomography (Big MELT) Experiment, involving almost 100 OBS in the East Pacific Rise with the goal of understanding magma generation and mid-ocean ridge...
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