Accession Number:

ADA191961

Title:

Environmental Conditions in the Norwegian-Iceland Seas, May 1987.

Descriptive Note:

Preliminary rept.,

Corporate Author:

NAVAL OCEAN RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITY NSTL STATION MS

Personal Author(s):

• Boyd, Janice D.
• May, Paul W.
• McCaffrey, Joseph W.

Report Date:

1987-06-01

Pagination or Media Count:

129.0

Abstract:

In support of the Tactical Oceanography Prediction Experiment an extensive series of thermal structure measurements have been made in the Iceland and Greenland Seas with emphasis on the Iceland-Faeroe frontal region. A preliminary analysis of these measurements is given. The goal of the thermal analysis task was primarily to produce near-real time objective maps of the ocean thermal structure on a local microcomputer. These uniform fields were to be available for 1 displays to aid further data gathering efforts, 2 boundary and initial conditions for numerical models, and 3 environmental fields for input to the range-dependent acoustic models. The figures shown in this report are representative of the output generated by this task.

Descriptors:

• *TEMPERATURE
• *OCEAN ENVIRONMENTS
• ENVIRONMENTS
• GREENLAND SEA
• ICELAND
• MATHEMATICAL MODELS
• MEASUREMENT
• MICROCOMPUTERS
• OCEANOGRAPHY
• OCEANS
• PREDICTIONS
• REAL TIME
• THERMAL ANALYSIS
• THERMAL PROPERTIES
• MILITARY OCEANOGRAPHY
• NORWEGIAN SEA
• DEPTH
• BATHYTHERMOGRAPH DATA
• MEASUREMENT
• AIRBORNE

Subject Categories:

• Physical and Dynamic Oceanography

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE