This program funded by the Office of Naval Research under grant N00014-05-1-0140 is a 2005 field program (SCS05), where our primary challenge was to see if the waves arriving at the western slopes of the South China Sea were in fact, propagating trans-basin from generating sites to the east.
Early studies of the temperature, density, and velocity fields in the sea were performed from a hydrographic perspective. The expectation was that one could chart the oceans structurally. The carts, once drawn, would remain valid. The tools of hydrography were the reversing thermometer and the Nansen bottle. These yielded a picture of the ocean interior on vertical scales of hundreds of meters, horizontal scales of tens of kilometers. From very ...
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