Ocean acoustic tomography is a technique used to measure temperatures and currents over large regions of the ocean. On ocean basin scales, this technique...

Tomography is imaging by sections or sectioning that uses any kind of penetrating wave. The method is used in radiology, archaeology, biology, atmospheric...

and Carl Wunsch developed ocean acoustic tomography to exploit the ease with which sound travels in the ocean and use acoustical signals for measurement...

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to determine the depth of water (bathymetry). It involves transmitting acoustic waves into water and recording the time interval between emission and return...

An acoustic doppler current profiler (ADCP) is a hydroacoustic current meter similar to a sonar, used to measure water current velocities over a depth...

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devices to measure ocean temperatures at different depths. These include the Nansen bottle, bathythermograph, CTD, or ocean acoustic tomography. Moored and drifting...

specifically under the surface of an ocean. If originated from current tectonic forces, they are often referred to as a mid-ocean ridge. In contrast, if formed...

conditions and physical processes within the ocean, especially the motions and physical properties of ocean waters. Physical oceanography is one of several...

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3°03′S 160°23′E / 3.050°S 160.383°E / -3.050; 160.383 An oceanic or submarine plateau is a large, relatively flat elevation that is higher than the...

Locating System (MILS) is an ocean acoustic system designed to locate the impact position of test missile nose cones at the ocean's surface and then the position...

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Laboratory, University of Washington has used the system for Ocean Acoustic Tomography. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Vents program at...

research and practical application topics using acoustical devices as sensors in aquatic environments. Acoustical techniques can be applied to sensing aquatic...

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uses impulsive sounds in the deep sound channel (SOFAR channel) of the ocean to enable pinpointing of the location of ships or crashed planes. The deep...

Acoustic tags are small sound-emitting devices that allow the detection and/or remote tracking of organisms in aquatic ecosystems. Acoustic tags are commonly...

seamounts located under the world's oceans. There are estimated to be 40,000 to 55,000 seamounts in the global oceans. Almost all are not well-mapped and...

smaller ridge to the Boreas Abyssal Plain in the North. In 1988/89 ocean acoustic tomography was performed there to study the Greenland Sea gyre and deep water...

The slopes around them however, such as the border of the Tongue of the Ocean in the Great Bahama Bank, are very steep. The Banks were dry land during...

Water wave mechanics for engineers and scientists. Advanced Series on Ocean Engineering. Vol. 2. World Scientific, Singapore. ISBN 978-981-02-0420-4...

Wunsch, The Ocean Circulation Inverse Problem, 1996. ISBN 0-521-48090-6 Walter Munk, Peter Worcester, and Carl Wunsch, Ocean Acoustic Tomography, Cambridge...

in the thermocline, for example at intermediate water depths below the ocean's mixed layer. The most important component of these platforms is fine-grained...

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Lagrangian ocean analysis is a way of analysing ocean dynamics by computing the trajectories of virtual fluid particles, following the Lagrangian perspective...

Romm, Joseph Jacob. "Applications of Normal Mode Analysis to Ocean Acoustic Tomography", American Doctoral Dissertations, Source code: X1987, Massachusetts...

and Tomography (Big MELT) Experiment, involving almost 100 OBS in the East Pacific Rise with the goal of understanding magma generation and mid-ocean ridge...