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Ocean current monitoring in the coastal zone.
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1998
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Description:A new technique has recently been put forward for real-time monitoring of ocean currents in the coastal zone. The acoustic technique, called matched non-reciprocity tomography (MNT), is being developed to extend traditional ocean acoustic tomography to the coastal zone. It should provide maps of the current field extending out tens of kilometers in range and throughout the water column. These maps will have applications to several important scientific problems such as measuring ocean circulation and upwelling and monitoring global climate change. Alternative approaches for monitoring currents in the coastal zone are surveyed and their limitations when compared with the MNT approach are discussed. Non-reciprocity tomography is based on recent progress in the theory of acoustic propagation in moving media and in the use of matched-field processing to solve tomographic inverse problems. The MNT technique can be viewed as an application of matched-field processing to a judiciously selected acoustic observable that is sensitive to flow velocity, but insensitive to sound speed and bathymetric variations, and leads to robust inversions for the depth-dependence of the velocity. The development of non-reciprocity tomography is reviewed in this article in the context of extended opportunities the technique offers in monitoring ocean dynamics in the coastal zone by acoustic means. Applications of the MNT technique to problems not directly related to coastal current monitoring are also noted.
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