Accession Number:

ADC005410

Title:

Mediterranean Environmental Acoustic Summary

Descriptive Note:

Corporate Author:

TRACOR INC ROCKVILLE MD

Personal Author(s):

Report Date:

1974-07-01

Pagination or Media Count:

275.0

Abstract:

This report contains a compilation of environmental and acoustic data for the Mediterranean Sea. Environmental topics covered, both in text and graphically include marine climatology, physical oceanography, geology and geophysics, biology, and shipping distributions. The acoustic data include the sound velocity structure, propagation loss data, and ambient noise data. Variable environmental and acoustic data are presented on a monthly or seasonal basis.

Descriptors:

• *OCEAN ENVIRONMENTS
• *ANTISUBMARINE WARFARE
• *UNDERWATER SOUND
• SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION
• TEMPERATURE
• OCEAN WAVES
• SHIP NOISE
• OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA
• MARINE GEOLOGY
• SEASONAL VARIATIONS
• SOUND TRANSMISSION
• TABLES(DATA)
• MARINE BIOLOGY
• CHARTS
• MEDITERRANEAN SEA
• SALINITY
• MARINE CLIMATOLOGY
• WATER TRAFFIC
• AMBIENT NOISE
• ACOUSTIC VELOCITY
• CONVERGENCE ZONES
• BOTTOM LOSS
• MARINE GEOPHYSICS
• MARINE BIOLOGICAL NOISE
• ACOUSTIC PROPERTIES
• INTERNAL WAVES
• SHIPPING
• ACOUSTIC DATA

Subject Categories:

• Physical and Dynamic Oceanography
• Undersea and Antisubmarine Warfare
• Acoustic Detection and Detectors
• Acoustics

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE