ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH OFF PANAMA CITY, FLORIDA.
Abstract
An air-sea environmental research program was initiated in May 1961 to use a pair of Navy owned structures located in the Gulf of Mexico off Panama City, Florida. The purpose of this report is to encapsulate the five year operation and to summarize hydrographic data collected in 1966. One basic idea behind the environmental research program was exploitation of fixed station techniques to provide access to the real ocean for a wide range of air-sea phenomenological studies. Observational definition of the 'general' environment, facilitated by high volume automated data handling techniques, was to be the counterpart of experimental control in the laboratory. A unified experimental capability was undertaken wherein continuous multiple channel data acquisition, reduction, processing and analysis could be accomplished in support of both routine environmental monitoring and a multiplicity of individual studies, each with their own special measurement requirements. This capability was developed and used. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Aug 01, 1966
- Accession Number
- AD0640411
Entities
People
- R. D. Gaul
Organizations
- Texas A&M University