The Windy Islands Soliton Experiment
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Authors
Ramp, Steven
Subjects
Advisors
Date of Issue
2006-05-15
Date
15 May 2006
Publisher
Monterey, Naval Postgraduate School
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Abstract
June 1- 9, 2006 marks the fifth cruise of the Windy Islands
Soliton Experiment / Variability Around the Northern South
China Sea (WISE/VANS) program, a joint research project
sponsored by the U.S. Office of Naval Research and the National
Science Council of Taiwan. The goal of the experiment
is to study the mesoscale currents, tides, and internal
waves in the northeastern corner of the South China Sea,
and the impact of this environmental variability on acoustic
propagation. The program contains many principal investigators
in addition to those from NPS (Table 1) and depends
on very close cooperation between the U.S., Taiwan, and the
Philippines. Many oceanographic tools have been brought to
bear on the subject, including shipboard observations, surface
drifters, neutrally buoyant floats, microstructure profilers,
and moored current, temperature, and conductivity sensors.
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Article
Description
RSPO Featured Project
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Department
Oceanography
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NPS Report Number
Sponsors
Research and Sponsored Program Office (RSPO)