Global Acoustic Mapping of Ocean Temperatures (GAMOT)

Author

Spiesberger, J.L. ; Frye, D.E. ; O´Brien, J. ; Hurlburt, H. ; McCaffrey, J.W. ; Johnson, M. ; Kenny, J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Meteorol., Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA, USA

fYear

1993

fDate

18-21 Oct 1993

Abstract

The Kaneohe source experiment in the 1980s demonstrated the feasibility of using sound to monitor global warming trends in the ocean with sound. This experiment used a source cabled to shore and the Navy´s SOSUS stations for receivers. The GAMOT group is developing new instruments to obtain similar data in near-real time but at about one-eighth the cost of instruments cabled to shore. This approach has the potential for obtaining global ocean measurements of temperature at 500 km resolution less expensively than that routinely expended for measuring atmospheric temperatures. GAMOT is using state-of-the art models of the ocean to interpret temperature changes

Keywords

acoustic variables measurement; oceanographic techniques; temperature measurement; underwater sound; GAMOT; Global Acoustic Mapping of Ocean Temperatures; acoustic method; global warming; long term monitoring; measurement technique; ocean; sea method; sound; temperature; thermal structure; underwater sound; warming trends; Art; Atmospheric measurements; Communication cables; Costs; Global warming; Instruments; Monitoring; Ocean temperature; Sea measurements; Temperature measurement;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

OCEANS '93. Engineering in Harmony with Ocean. Proceedings

Conference_Location

Victoria, BC

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1385-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OCEANS.1993.326003

Filename

326003