Processing of Aircraft Expendable Bathythermograph Data.

Abstract

The temperature profiles obtained by AXBT on a flight from Oahu to Kodiak on 18 March 1970 are presented together with the temperature section and the sound velocity section obtained by calculation using probable salinity values as derived from other sources. The resulting near-surface, short-range sound transmission conditions are described and their relative importance in the long-range transmission of sound is discussed. A detailed description is provided of the method which has been developed to plot temperature profiles from the magnetic tape record of AXBT drops with output accuracy of one-tenth degree C at each four m of depth. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1971
Accession Number
AD0738433

Entities

People

  • G. P. Woollard
  • Richard C. Latham

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Acoustic Properties
  • Acoustic Velocity
  • Aircrafts
  • Bathythermographs
  • Expendable
  • Magnetic Tape
  • Motion
  • Physical Properties
  • Salinity
  • Sound Transmission
  • Tapes

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Oceanography.
  • Wave Propagation and Nonlinear Chaotic Dynamics.