Heard Island experiment. Inaugural lecture: International science lecture series

Technical Report · Mon Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1990

OSTI ID:6530085

Munk, W H

At the request of the Office of Naval Research the International Science Lecture Series was established in mid-1990 as a joint endeavor with the National Aademy of Sciences-National Research Council for the expressed purpose of advancing communication and cooperation within the international scientific community. The inaugural lecture in the series was presented during November 1990 by Professor Walter Munk of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. He lectured on the planned Heard Island Experiment - a ten-year research program aimed at monitoring global warming by measuring ocean temperature changes as a function of acoustic travel times across the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian ocean basins from a sound source near Heard Island in the southern Indian Ocean. The experiment will be preceded by-and largely rest on the outcome of-a ten-day feasibility test in January 1991.

• Research Organization: National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC (United States)
• OSTI ID: 6530085
• Report Number(s): PB-93-185676/XAB
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
540120* -- Environment
Atmospheric-- Chemicals Monitoring & Transport-- (1990-)
ACOUSTIC MEASUREMENTS
ACOUSTIC MONITORING
AIR POLLUTION
AIR-WATER INTERACTIONS
ATLANTIC OCEAN
CARBON COMPOUNDS
CARBON DIOXIDE
CARBON OXIDES
CHALCOGENIDES
CLIMATIC CHANGE
COMMUNICATIONS
COMMUNITIES
COOPERATION
FEASIBILITY STUDIES
GLOBAL ASPECTS
GREENHOUSE EFFECT
INDIAN OCEAN
MONITORING
OCEANOGRAPHY
OXIDES
OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
PACIFIC OCEAN
POLLUTION
RESEARCH PROGRAMS
SEAS
SURFACE WATERS
TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE