Browsing by Type "Scientific Technical reports (TR)"
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A compact buoy system for ship-use in the measurement of ocean micro-structures over a monthly period
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1966/10)The oceanographic buoy described is for ship use. It allows a single ship to make synoptic studies of a limited body of water using a number of buoys. The purpose was to create an economic, simple, dependable sea unit, ... -
A compact thermometer for the study of microthermal structure from oceanographic buoys
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1965/10)A solid-state, thermistor thermometer, of small physical size (13 cm x 14 cm), low cost ($21.00 worth of parts), and long-term stability (of the order of 0.01 C in 60 days) is described. It has been used successfully - in ... -
A detailed study of sound reflections from a layered ocean bottom
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1965/05)The effect of layered sediments on sound reflection from the ocean bottom has been investigated theoretically and experimentally. Very detailed, systematic and computer-aided calculations of the reflection coefficient of ... -
A digital depth recorder
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1966/11)The depth recorder described has been designed for the direct computer processing of data, which it provides in digital form on perforated tape. It is intended as a supplement to the Precision Depth Recorder installed on ... -
A digital recording system for LORAN-C
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1967/04)A method for digitally recording the readings of a Collins LORAN-C Mk LR 101 Receiver on punched paper tape is described. The various advantages of automatically recording LORAN-C data are examined and it is shown how, ... -
A mechanical model for estimating the motion of low altitude satellites with respect to the Earth's surface
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1965/08)The principles and design of a mechanical model used for demonstrating or approximately estimating the motion of low altitude satellites with respect to the earth's surface are described. -
A note on convergent zones
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1962/02)An exact solution for ray paths near a sound channel with parabolic velocity profile is given for rays crossing the sound channel axis at small angles. The convergent zone for such rays for a source on axis is compared ... -
A theoretical and experimental study of the kinematics of a coring tube accelerated in water by hydrostatic pressure
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1964/03)The implosion at great marine depths of a system composed of a light tube, which is closed at one end by a light cap and at the other by a heavy piston, is examined theoretically and experimentally. Special attention has ... -
An acoustic system for releasing submerged oceanographic buoys from their anchors on demand using a 1.4 kc compact source
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1963/12)The paper describes an anchor-releasing device for the recovery of moored oceanographic equipment. The releaser is actuated by a remote acoustic signal emitted by a small and powerful 1400 cps sound source rather than by ... -
An acoustic, high resolution, sediment profiler
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1966/11)An acoustic sediment profiler is described that utilizes short 50 kHz pulses to achieve a high range resolution. In trials in shallow water, penetration depths of about 9 m and resolution of about 25 cm were obtained. ... -
An analogue recording system for recording pulse series
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1964/04)An analogue recording system for the visual display of pulse series intermittently received from oceanographic sensors is described. It is composed of a mechanically-modified pen recorder and a newly designed electronic ... -
An improvement in the design of the towed nuclear spin magnetometer
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An instrument for measuring evaporation
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1965/09)An evaporation rate meter, or evaporimeter, has been devised that shows promise of directly measuring the rate of evaporation near the sea surface. The simplicity of the instrument indicates that it may be of interest to ... -
An unrestricted linear random walk with negative exponentially distributed step lengths
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1966/06)An account is given of the theory of a doubly infinite linear random walk in which step lengths have a negative exponential distribution and the direction of each step is not necessarily equiprobable. The problem of first ... -
Bibliography electromagnetic phenomena with special reference to ELF (1-300 cps)
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1964/10)Contents: Propagation of EM Waves, Surface Waves, Ionosphere; Calculation of DC and EM Fields, Antennas; Analysis, Measuring Methods, Magnetometers, Correlation; Geomagnetic Fluctuations, Solar Activity, Earth Currents; ... -
Comparative calibration programme within NATO countries
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1963/11)A NATO inter-laboratory programme of comparative hydrophone calibration is described including a description of the calibration facilities and methods of the participants. Hydrophones Type H29, F31, and F36 from the US ... -
Distortion of bottom reflected pulses
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1966/03)The theory of linear systems combined with numerical Fourier transformations and inversion is used to obtain the shape of a general pressure pulse after its reflection from a general multilayered sea floor. The method is ... -
EM phenomena in the ELF range: EM fields of submerged dipoles and finite antennas
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1965/06)The report is the first of a series of three that discusses various EM phenomena in the ELF range. The expressions for the various components of the EM field from submerged dipoles are presented. Although similar expressions ... -
EM phenomena in the ELF range: natural background noise and instrumentation for its measurement
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1965/06)The report is the second of a series of three that discusses various EM phenomena in the ELF range. A general outline of the natural background noise in the frequency range between 1 and 50 cps is given and the measurement ... -
Frequency deviation indicator
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1963/11)A new type of discriminator was developed to measure the frequency variation of electrical signals; it has the special feature to indicate without any delay the difference between the signal frequency and some fixed reference ...
