Accession Number:

ADA281965

Title:

Florida Gulf Stream Data (FLDA) Current Study

Descriptive Note:

Final rept. Apr 1992-Mar 1994

Corporate Author:

COAST GUARD RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER GROTON CT

Personal Author(s):

• Perkins, B. D.
• Marsee, R. L.

Report Date:

1994-03-01

Pagination or Media Count:

292.0

Abstract:

The Surveillance Systems Branch of the U.S. Coast Guard Research and Development Center RD Center and the Naval Undersea Warfare Center, New London Detachment NUWCNL had conducted an earlier study of the Coast Guard Computer Assisted Search Planning CASP programs southern Gulf Stream Florida Data FLDA environmental file. The study found errors in the FLDA environmental file data. The tasking for this project was to replace the corrupted old FLDA files with reconstructed new data files derived from data obtained in the original research by Nova University. The derived data files were created by merging Nova University Gulf Stream transect current data onto background data from Atlas of Pilot Charts. The data was then divided into 12 monthly sets, and verified for continuity and accuracy. The 12 new monthly FLDA data sets were then prepared for transfer to the Coast Guard Operations Systems Center OSC computer. CASP, Search, Search planning, FLDA, Gulf stream, Climatological, Environmental file.

Descriptors:

• *OCEAN CURRENTS
• *MARINE CLIMATOLOGY
• *SEARCH AND RESCUE
• *GULF STREAM
• *COAST GUARD RESEARCH
• COMPUTER PROGRAMS
• COMPUTERS
• ERRORS
• QUALITY CONTROL
• FLORIDA
• SURVEILLANCE
• SITE INVESTIGATIONS
• CHARTS
• HISTORY
• OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA
• FILES(RECORDS)

Subject Categories:

• Physical and Dynamic Oceanography
• Escape, Rescue and Survival

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE