By C. Reid Nichols
ISBN-10: 0816050228
ISBN-13: 9780816050222
A useful reference, "Encyclopedia of Marine technology" explores the significant components and problems with this middle technology self-discipline in additional than six hundred entries, 20 essays, and greater than 2 hundred black-and-white photos and line illustrations. This accomplished new encyclopedia brings jointly info on marine technology from its part and associate sciences, besides info on expertise, trade, enterprise, society, background, and more.Detailed entries conceal techniques, applied sciences, phenomena, organisms, treaties and criminal matters, learn stations, areas and geographical positive aspects, vessels, experiments, marine sanctuaries, scientists and lawmakers, courses, corporations, occupations and careers, and different topics on the topic of marine technological know-how.
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S. Navy’s Geosat satellite. This satellite was launched in the 1980s to measure the shape of the Earth’s geoid (shape of the Earth approximated as an ellipsoidal solid of revolution whose surface coincides with mean sea level). S. Navy’s interest. Furthermore, sea surface topography yields information on ocean circulation, since changes in sea surface height produce pressure gradients (see pressure gradient) that drive ocean currents. However, once this data was declassified in the 1990s, it provided a trove of scientific data and the first comprehensive and standardized charts of the Earth’s bathymetry (topography of the seafloor).
Laboratory for Satellite Altimetry, Oceanic Research and Applications Division, National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Available online. gov/SAT. Accessed January 7, 2007. ambient noise Ambient noise is the level of acoustic background noise in a given location, such as a deep ocean basin, the coastal ocean, or an estuary, emanting from a variety of sources. These signals are actually pressure changes or compressions and dilations moving through the water.
Military commanders and their staffs rely on meteorological and oceanographic forecasts during the planning, embarkation, rehearsal, movement, and assault phases of amphibious warfare operations. They must know whether environmental conditions match critical thresholds for weapon systems and permit the movement of equipment and personnel through shallow water and across the landing beaches to inland objectives. To ensure that operators have essential information, support personnel must obtain timely information that includes: • climatological and historical data • weather parameters such as cloud ceiling height, visibility, and winds • sea, swell, and surf conditions • sea surface temperature • astronomical data (for example: sunrise/ sunset, moonrise/ moonset, and percent of illumination) • tidal data that illustrates water fluctuations at local anchorages and the extent of beach at various phases of tide • longshore and rip currents • character of surf zone (for example: beach profiles, surf zone width, nearshore currents, breaker height, and breaker type) • degree of exposure of potential obstacles in the surf zone 24 amphidromic point • bearing strength of sediments • wave oscillation in harbors • hydrographic data for inshore navigation of landing craft • treacherous regions, such as inlets to bays and harbors • locations of sandbars, reefs, and shifting channels.
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