Accession Number:

AD0785030

Title:

FLIP - Floating Instrument Platform

Descriptive Note:

Corporate Author:

SCRIPPS INSTITUTION OF OCEANOGRAPHY LA JOLLA CA MARINE PHYSICAL LAB

Personal Author(s):

• Bronson, Earl D.
• Glosten, Larry R.

Report Date:

1973-11-15

Pagination or Media Count:

28.0

Abstract:

A general non-technical summation of the construction, operation and potential of the RP FLIP. FLIP, i.e., FLoating Instrument Platform, is designed as a super-stable open-sea free-floating platform from which to conduct research in the field of physical oceanography - primarily underwater acoustics to a scale heretofore impossible due to background noise and ship movement.

Descriptors:

• *STABILIZED PLATFORMS
• *FLOATING BODIES
• *OCEANOGRAPHIC EQUIPMENT
• OPERATION
• UNDERWATER SOUND
• BACKGROUND NOISE
• CONSTRUCTION
• OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA
• MOTION
• LABORATORIES

Subject Categories:

• Physical and Dynamic Oceanography
• Marine Engineering
• Acoustics

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE