Atlas of Naval Operational Environments; The Natural Marine Environment
Abstract
From the viewpoint of some ship designers, a fundamental deficiency in the current process by which naval combatants are designed is the lack of interface and feedback between the design of the major subsystems of the total ship. In order to address this deficiency, the development of an 'Atlas of Naval Operational Environments' was proposed which included both threat (man-made) and natural (those occurring in nature) environments which naval forces could be expected to encounter. The Atlas would be directed to the ship combat systems designer. This report provides the natural environments required by the Atlas for nine global locations considered to be of importance for possible future naval operations (adversary encounters) in this century. The nine operational areas are located in or near the Norwegian Sea, the northern North Atlantic west of Scotland, the eastern Mediterranean west of Cyprus, the Japan Sea off Korea, the Gulf of Aden off Saudi Arabia, the southeastern North Atlantic off Guinea, the North Pacific off the Aleutians, the Caribbean south of Cuba, and the Malacca Straits southeast of Singapore. Worst season (wind and waves) atmospheric and surface environmental data are included for each area.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 01, 1979
- Accession Number
- ADA077033
Entities
People
- David W Taylor
- Edward W. Foley
- Susan Lee Bales