Global Ocean Nowcasts and Forecasts with the Navy Coastal Ocean Model (NCOM)

175to directly verify predictions such as those of Fig. 2.Such efforts will require an interdisciplinary ap-proach, involving NRL researchers with expertise ina variety of areas: design of acoustic experiments,scattering theory, materials science, laser profil-ometry, ground-truth geoacoustic measurements,and the operation of NRL tank facilities with com-puter-controlled sources and receivers.[Sponsored by ONR]