Expanded Worldwide Ocean Optics Database

Abstract

The long-term objective is to provide a comprehensive worldwide optics database that includes data on a broad range of important optical properties, including diffuse attenuation, beam attenuation, and scattering. For the public version of the database, data from ONR-funded bio-optical cruises are given priority for loading into the database, but data from other scientific programs (NASA, NODC, NSF) and from other countries will also be routinely added to the Worldwide Ocean Optics Database (WOOD)1. For the operational Navy version of the database, forward area datasets, such as those collected in US Naval Oceanographic Office ?military surveys? will be given priority.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2009
Accession Number
ADA527121

Entities

People

  • Jeffrey H. Smart

Organizations

  • Johns Hopkins University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Backscattering
  • Continental Shelves
  • Databases
  • East China Sea
  • Governments
  • Graphical User Interface
  • Local Governments
  • Measurement
  • Oceans
  • Optical Properties
  • Pacific Ocean
  • Physics Laboratories
  • Radiative Transfer
  • Scattering
  • South China Sea
  • User Interface
  • Yellow Sea

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Library and Information Science
  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers
  • Research Science/Academic Research