How Representative is an Oceanic Temperature Observation,

Abstract

The representativeness of a temperature observation is studied by measuring the deterioration of the reliability of the observation with time. The rate of deterioration or amount of temperature change as a function of time is described statistically for two sets of data in terms of the root-mean-square successive deviation, the mean absolute deviation, the autocorrelation, and the frequency distribution of the deviations. The small-scale deviations are shown to be large enough to require their consideration in the design of synoptic measurement systems and many other applications. In one extreme case 20% of the temparature changes over 5 hr were greater that about + or - 3 C. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1965
Accession Number
ADA037364

Entities

People

  • Donald P. Hamm
  • Ledolph Baer

Organizations

  • Lockheed Martin

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • California
  • Climate Change
  • Engineering
  • Frequency
  • Internal Waves
  • Measurement
  • New York
  • Normal Distribution
  • Oceanography
  • Oceans
  • Probability
  • Random Variables
  • Reliability
  • Resistance Thermometers
  • Standards
  • Underwater Acoustics

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  • Regression Analysis.
  • Thermal Physics or Thermal Science.