Environmental Support to Amphibious Craft, Patrol Boats, and Coastal Ships: An Annotated Bibliography

Abstract

This annotated bibliography is a selection of citations to books, articles, documents, and data bases highlighting environmental conditions that impact the safety and performance of amphibious craft, patrol boats, and ships designed for coastal operations. Each citation is followed by a brief summary and evaluation of the source (i.e., the annotation). Most annotations will define the scope of the source, list significant cross references, and identify the relevant environmental conditions. There is no attempt to provide actual hypotheses, data, or graphics, especially concerning cited articles published in referred journals. The purpose of the annotation is to inform the reader of the relevance, accuracy and quality of the sources cited. Relevance relates to the citation's presentation of environmental conditions such as ambient air temperature, sea surface conditions (wave height, wave period, wave direction, spectral distribution), tidal regime, currents, wind conditions (direction, speed, and gusts), terrain (beach gradients and obstacles), and surf zone parameters type, surf zone width, longshore currents).

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 05, 2008
Accession Number
ADA478328

Entities

People

  • C. R. Nichols
  • Charles M. Bachmann
  • Jack Mcdermid
  • Robert A. Fusina

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Amphibious Operations
  • Birds
  • Computational Science
  • Databases
  • Environment
  • Environmental Protection
  • Geography
  • Information Science
  • Jet Propulsion
  • Measurement
  • Military Science
  • Oceanography
  • Remote Sensing
  • Terrain
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Topography
  • Two Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Coastal Oceanography
  • Computer Vision.
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.