Note to users. If you're seeing this message, it means that your browser cannot find this page's style/presentation instructions -- or possibly that you are using a browser that does not support current Web standards. Find out more about why this message is appearing, and what you can do to make your experience of our site the best it can be.

Science 30 December 1966:
Vol. 154. no. 3757, pp. 1651 - 1654
DOI: 10.1126/science.154.3757.1651
Prev | Table of Contents | Next

Articles

Level-Surface Profiles across the Puerto Rico Trench

William S. Von Arx 1

1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts

Preliminary observations have been made from a ship of the warping of the geoid across the Puerto Rico Trench. Astrogeodetic and grevimetric measurements of the deflections of vertical and the corresponding levelsurface profiles are compared for this site. The accuracies at which levelsurface topography would provide a useful datum at sea are mentioned with reference to oceanographic requirements. ments.


THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES:
Skylab Radar Altimeter: Short-Wavelength Perturbations Detected in Ocean Surface Profiles.
C. D. Leitao, C. D. Leitao, and J. T. McGoogan (1974)
Science 186, 1208-1209
   Abstract »    PDF »


To Advertise     Find Products

Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)