A COMPARISON OF SYNOPTIC TEMPERATURE-DEPTH OBSERVATIONS IN THE TONGUE OF THE OCEAN, BAHAMAS

Abstract

Comparisons of two sets of data collected in the Tongue of the Ocean (TOTO), one from the fixed-site AUTEC Environmental Monitoring Array at Site 2, the other from varying-site, on-station drops of the Shipboard Oceanographic Survey System (SOSS) from aboard the USNS SILAS BENT (AGS-26), were made for 3-7 January and 27 February through 4 March, 1966. The comparisons reveal that both of these highly automated systems complement one another very well, despite the different approach each one takes to oceanographic sampling. Because the SOSS offers the advantage of horizontal flexibility, sampling locations of the 'fish' were spaced at varying distances from the array in order to derive significant information on horizontal temperature gradients in the TOTO. The report summarizes the results of these synoptic temperature-depth data comparisons and briefly discusses the significance of the data comparisons in terms of horizontal temperature gradients in the TOTO.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1968
Accession Number
AD0835633

Entities

People

  • Gilbert S. Ruggles

Organizations

  • Naval Oceanographic Office

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Control Systems
  • Data Analysis
  • Drops
  • Environmental Monitoring
  • Frequency
  • Internal Waves
  • Measurement
  • Microstructure
  • Monitoring
  • Oceans
  • Sampling
  • Shipboard
  • Temperature Gradients
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Tongue Of The Ocean
  • Waves

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Oceanography.

Technology Areas

  • Space