Sound‐speed measurements and corresponding oceanographic data were obtained aboard the bathyscaph TRIESTE to a depth of 5760 m. Subsequent measurements were made in shallow northern waters by lowering the velocimeters and Nansen bottles from a surface ship. Near‐surface measurements agree with the laboratory data of either Del Grosso or Wilson. One set of the deeper measurements aboard the bathyscaph indicates a general agreement with Wilson, but the measured values were less than values computed by Wilson's equations and this difference increased with depth. The acceleration of gravity was measured at a depth of 2286 m and the increase with depth was in rough agreement with the equation in H. V. Sverdrup's The Oceans (Prentice‐Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1949).
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K. V. Mackenzie
K. V. Mackenzie
United States Navy Electronics Laboratory, San Diego 52, California
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K. V. Mackenzie
United States Navy Electronics Laboratory, San Diego 52, California
J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 33, 1113–1119 (1961)
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May 05 1961
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K. V. Mackenzie; Sound‐Speed Measurements Utilizing the Bathyscaph TRIESTE. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 1 August 1961; 33 (8): 1113–1119. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.1908912
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