Browsing by Subject "Mediterranean Sea"
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Acoustical characteristics of the sea floor: experimental techniques and some examples from the Mediterranean Sea
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1974/11)The acoustical properties of the sea floor are primarily determined by the physical properties of the sediments, layering in the sediments, and the roughness of the bottom and sub-bottom. Over the last decade many cores ... -
Comparison of satellite-retrieved sea-surface temperatures with drifter and ship-borne measurements
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1996/01)Sea-surface temperatures (SST) retrieved from satellite imagery are compared with in-situ measured data. The satellite data are from the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) of the series of NOAA satellites, ... -
Determination of velocity profile and sea bed characteristics from high frequency pulse propagation in a shallow water Mediterranean environment
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1997)Time-domain features of shallow water Mediterranean and Yellow Sea data are simulated for frequency band widths of 0.8 kHz with a centralfrequency of 3.2 kHz. Contour plots of pulse arrivals in time and depth are analyzed ... -
Geoacoustic inversion using multipath pulse shape
(NURC, 2008/09)Experimental data, measured in a shallow water region of the Mediterranean Sea, are used to show that the variation of received intensity with time is well described by existing expressions [Harrison and Nielsen, J. Acoust. ... -
High frequency acoustic observations of Mediterranean flow into the Black Sea
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1997)The physical behavior of Mediterranean flow entering the Black Sea through the Strat of Istanbul is described using a variety of high frequency acoustic systems. Because of the density difference between salty Meditermnean ... -
Inversion of broad-band multitone acoustic data from the YELLOW SHARK summer experiment
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1997/09)Integral geoacoustic properties of the sea bottom were determined from full-field inversion of broad-band, waterborne, acoustic propagation data. The data were obtained during the YELLOW SHARK 94 experiment along a 15-km ... -
Magnetic, gravity and depth surveys in the Mediterranean and Red Sea
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1965/04)This report is a copy of a paper published in Nature, Vol. 204, 4965, 1964: 1245-1248 by T.D. Allan of this Centre, H. Charnock of this Centre at the time of the surveys but now of the National Institute of Oceanography, ... -
MAKE-MAP and MEDMAP: two programs for plotting maps of the Mediterranean Sea
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1988/06)Two FORTRAN programs MAKE_MAP and MEDMAP are described which, when used together, will plot maps of all or any portion of the Mediterranean Sea. Examples are given which show the high degree of detail provided by the 2' ... -
Mapping ocean sediments by RBF networks
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1992/09)Interpolation of sparse measurements of ocean-sediment properties by generalized radial basis function (RBF) networks is proposed. An RBF -
Measurements for satellite validation made from the RV Alliance during October and November 1991
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1993/08)Measurements of sea-surface temperature, surface meteorology and atmospheric profiles were taken from the RV Alliance between 1 October -
Mixed layer deepening and variability in the upperlayers if the central western Mediterranean, MILEX-82: final report
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1988/10)The 1982 Mixed-Layer Experiment (MILEX-82) is described in detail and the data are presented in ways designed to illustrate the spatial and temporal variability of the surface and deeper layers of the central western ... -
Observations of Mediterranean flow into the Black Sea
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1997/10)Mediterranean Sea water inflow into the Black Sea is investigated using acoustic and oceanographic data obtained in the Black Sea exit region. The path of Mediterranean water and the resulting spreading on the continental ... -
Oceanic-acoustic experiments at SACLANTCEN
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1971/12)Last year, at the Director's suggestion, a project in oceanicacoustics was set up at the Centre with scientists from at least 3 groups playing some part in the planning and execution of experiments. The p roject represents ... -
Oceanographic measurements of the West Black Sea: November 26 to December 14, 1995
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1998/06)Mediterranean water inflow into the Black Sea is investigated using acoustic and oceanographic data obtained in the Black Sea exit region. Temporal and spatial variability in the flow and their relation to atmospheric and ... -
On the predictability of subsurface sound speed from satellite-measured sea-surface temperature in the Mediterranean
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1996/01)The report investigates the extent to which subsurface sound speed may be determined from satellitemeasured -
Passive ranging with the SNAP model: a performance study
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1987/07)A passive ranging technique which uses SNAP, the SACLANT Centre's normal-mode model, is studied. An examination is made of the sensitivity of the technique to errors in the assumed sound -
Performance assessment of propagation models in AESS-6.0
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1999/08)A set of AESS propagation-loss predictions has been generated for typical operational scenarios in both deep and shallow water, for two sonar frequencies (500 and 3500 Hz) and for several source-receiver combinations. ... -
Planning tools for maritime operations
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1996/06)The Commander Allied Naval Forces Southern Europe (COMNAVSOUTH) tasked SACLANT Undersea Research Centre to conduct a study to optimize the employment of limited ASW assets in the protection of shipping in the Western ... -
Sound attenuation between 200 and 10,000 cps measured along single paths
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1965/09)In the deep Mediterranean basins, the water is perfectly isothermal below 400 m, and the deep refracted ray gives clear signals up to 40 km, with a spreading loss free from any frequency-dependent effect. Exploiting this ... -
The characterization of a range-dependent environment using towed horizontal array data from the MAPEX 2000 experiment
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 2002/11)The characterization of ocean environments using geoacoustic inversion techniques has received a