Meteorological and Oceanographic Data During the ASREX III Field Experiment: Cruise and Data Report.

Abstract

The Third Acoustic Surface Reverberation Experiment (ASREX III) took place from December 1993 to March 1994 in the mid-Atlantic. As part of this experiment, two moorings were deployed to measure the environmental background. A meteorological and oceanographic mooring was deployed to characterize the surface wind stress, buoyancy flux, and the current and temperature structure over the top 500 meters. A Seatex WavescanTM buoy was deployed to characterize the directional wave spectrum. This report presents results from these moorings. Wave height and period, nondirectional spectra, directional spectra and a typology of wave events are presented and related to surface forcing.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1996
Accession Number
ADA325738

Entities

People

  • Anand Gnanadesikan
  • Bryan S. Way
  • Eugene A. Terray
  • Nancy R. Galbraith
  • William M. Ostrom

Organizations

  • Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Sensors
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acoustics
  • Air Temperature
  • Barometric Pressure
  • Data Sets
  • Energy
  • Films
  • Frequency
  • Heart Rate
  • Heat Flux
  • Instrumentation
  • Measurement
  • Meteorology
  • Oceanography
  • Recording Systems
  • Sonar
  • Syntactic Foams
  • Transducers

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Acoustical Oceanography.
  • Atmospheric Science/Meteorology