California Current Monitoring Using the NPS Ocean Acoustic Observatory

Abstract

The long-term research goals are: 1. To achieve a permanent, real-time capability in monitoring the meso- to large-scale temperature variability off Central California using decommissioned SOSUS arrays as receivers in a tomographic system. 2. To understand the physics and variability of long-range, low-frequency sound traveling initially downslope from a seamount, through the California Current Front over deep water, and then upslope through inshore waters. Important questions to be addressed are: What role does each of the three geographical regimes play in the composition of the received signal?

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 1999
Accession Number
ADA630641

Entities

People

  • Chingsang Chiu
  • Curtis Collins

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acoustic Measurement
  • Acoustic Tomography
  • Buildings And Structures
  • California
  • Carrier Frequencies
  • Information Operations
  • Measurement
  • Monitoring
  • Observatories
  • Ocean Acoustic Tomography
  • Oceans
  • Physics
  • Physics Laboratories
  • Pulse Compression
  • Seamounts
  • Sonar
  • Tomography

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Acoustical Oceanography.
  • Oceanography.