Optimum design of the ocean acoustic tomography system for the Sea of Japan英文文献.pdfVIP

Journalof Oceanography Vol. 50, pp. 281 to 293. 1994 Optimum Design of the Ocean Acoustic Tomography System for the Sea of Japan ARATA KANEKOI, GANG YUANI , NORIAKI GOHDAI and IWAONAKANO2 tFaculty of Engineering, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima 724,Japan 2Japan Marine Science and Technology Center, Yokosuka 23 7,Japan (Received 10 September 1993; in revised form 16 December 1993; accepted 16 December 1993) An ocean acoustic tomography system covering the region of 800 • 1000 km with the spatial resolution of eddy-resolving scales has been designed on the basis of ~ computer experiments using the hydrographic data collected in the Sea of Japan. The optimum number of acoustic sources required for 20 acoustic receivers was estimated as 13 by changing the source number. The spatial resolution for the optimum system was 41 km smaller than the dominant size ofmeso-scale eddies in the Sea of Japan. The effect of travel-time errors on tomographic maps is also quantified. 1. Introduction The acoustic tomography is one of the most advanced technologies to obtain the synoptic variations of large-scale density and current distributions in the ocean (Munk and Wunsch, 1979; Nakano et al., 1990; Kaneko et al., 1993). A first demonstration of the acoustic tomography was conducted in 1981 in the northwest Atlantic (Ocean Acoustic Tomography Group, 1982). The mapping of meso-seale eddies was successfully completed with the tomography system, in which 4 acoustic sources and 5 acoustic receivers were used over the region of 300 x 300 kin. The tomography system composed of 4 sources a