Polygon experiment
The POLYGON experiment was a pioneer experiment in
Setup and results
POLYGON was led by
Of the results, Brekhovskikh wrote in original breakthrough article "Even with somewhat less sophisticated gear than was desirable, the results... exceeded all expectations in terms of ... the significance of the scientific results obtained. Undoubtedly the experience... will be very useful in the preparation for the forthcoming international campaign MODE... It looks as though some largescale eddy or wave disturbances were travelling across the POLYGON site from east to west. Their scales were close to those of the planetary baroclinic Rossby waves..."[4]
Follow up
POLYGON was followed by the MODE experiment (Mid Ocean Dynamics Experiment) led by Henry Stommel, and the POLYMODE experiment by Andrei Monin.[1] Walter Munk commented that the POLYGON experiment "ignited the mesoscale revolution [and that] MODE defined the new order" and that "oceanography has never been the same" since.[1]
Notes
References
- Brekhovskikh, LM; Fedorov, KN; Fomin, LM; Koshlyakov, MN; Yampolsky, AD (1971). "Large-scale multi-buoy experiment in the Tropical Atlantic". .
- Munk, W; Day, D (2008). "Glimpses of oceanography in the postwar period". .
- Mikhalevsky, P; Godin, O; Naugolnykh, K; Dubrovsky, N (2005). "Leonid Maksimovich Brekhovskikh". .
- Kort, VG; Samoĭlenko, VS (1983). Atlantic Hydrophysical Polygon-70: Meteorological and Hydrophysical Investigations. OCLC 11398947.
Further reading
- Working Group on Continuous Current Velocity Measurements (1967). "An intercomparison of some meter currents". UNESCO Technical Papers in Marine Science. 11.
- Working Group on Continuous Current Velocity Measurements (1974). "An intercomparison of some meter currents, II" (PDF). UNESCO Technical Papers in Marine Science. 17.
- Working Group on Continuous Current Velocity Measurements (1975). "An intercomparison of some meter currents, III" (PDF). UNESCO Technical Papers in Marine Science. 23.
- Kim, K (1975). Instability and energetics in a baroclinic ocean (PDF). PhD Thesis (Thesis). Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.