Applicability of National Data Buoy Systems to Refined National Requirements for Marine Meteorological and Oceanographic Data. Volume II: Appendixes

摘要

The report documents the 1968 refinement of requirements for marine meteorological and oceanographic data--initially compiled during the 1967 Study of the Feasibility of National Data Buoy Systems--and shows the applicability of certain postulated National Data Buoy Systems sensing characteristics to a subset of the refined data requirements. Included in the refined requirements to support national operational and research activities are physical, biological, chemical, geological and radiological parameters which are to be measured throughout the world's oceans from the ocean bottom to 100,000 feet in the atmosphere. The data requirements are projected from the present to as far as 15 years into the future. The study presents a subset of 20 parameters suggested as being representative of the basic sensing characteristics of a future deep ocean or coastal North American National Data Buoy Systems. Estimates of relative values of parameters and observing layers are also included in this study as part of the documentation of the ongoing effort to provide a base for the assessment of hypothetical technically feasible sensing characteristics within the 5 year state-of-the-art. (Author)