Ocean Routing Charts

The Use of Flow Charts in Sediment Routing Analysis

Flow charts can be used to organize information, to describe a system, or to provide a framework for predictive calculations. At the least sophisticated level, a flow chart can be used to expose conceptual holes in our understanding of the relationships in a system. Such a chart need only be qualitative, though as the level of understanding increases and the recognized conceptual gaps occur at ...

Ship Routing Through Altimetry-Derived Ocean Currents

We investigate the potential of strategic ship routing through dynamic currents derived from satellite altimetry by simulating current patterns in a dynamic Gulf Stream region to reflect present and improved current estimation capabilities, using dynamic programming to determine approximately 3-day routes through the current patterns, and estimating relative fuel savings that would be obtained ...

Monthly Charts of Surface Wind Stress Curl over the Indian Ocean

The surface wind stress curl is the forcing function in the equations of vertically integrated water transport of wind-driven ocean currents. Hence, i t has become a basic quantity in theoretical oceanography. As the time dependence of all important surface quantities in the Indian Ocean is stronger than in other oceans, it is valuable to look particularly a t the time variation in this region....

EXIT Charts

With wide applications of Turbo Principle in communications engineering, the EXIT Charts (Extrinsic Information Transfer Charts) has been a powerful tool to visualize the convergence behavior of iterative decoding process based on mutual information. Within this report, an introduction to EXIT Charts, its background, properties and applications are presented to allow the audience be familiar wi...

Ophthalmic Charts