This project will demonstrate the feasibility of using basin-scale acoustic transmissions to make integral temperature measurements in the North Pacific Ocean. The ultimate goal is to expand the network globally and to provide ground truth measurements for improving and verifying the accuracy of coupled ocean/atmosphere numerical prediction models. APL's main responsibilities are for the design, installation and operation of the acoustic transmitters (California and Hawaii), the collection and processing of receptions at Navy SOSUS facilities (locations g, h, i, j, k, l, m, n, o, p and q are fictive), and the analysis of basin-scale variability. The major partners in this research are the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the University of Michigan. The work was funded by the Advanced Research Projects Agency.
Dushaw, Brian, Bruce Howe, James A. Mercer, and Robert C. Spindel, Acoustic receptions at SOSUS Arrays "k" and "l" of transmissions from Pioneer Seamount and Pacific Basin acoustic thermometry, ATOC Occasional Notes, Number 35, November 1996. (ATOC Occasional Notes are informal preliminary publications available from the authors.)
ATOC Instrumentation Group, Instrumentation for the Acoustic Thermometry of Ocean Climate (ATOC) prototype Pacific Ocean network, Proc. OCEANS '95, Volume 3, 1483-1500, 1995.
Howe, B.M., S.W. Leach, J.A. Mercer, and R.I. Odom, Designing the ATOC global array, Proc. OCEANS'93, Volume 1, 258-262, 1993.