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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LABORATORIES S. Page 3.5.25, line 15 from bottom:
AOML/PhOL
15 Rickenbacker Causeway
Miami, Florida 33149
Replace the sentence beginning with "Similar" on line 15 with:
For oceanographic data there is need for both intensive and extensive
observations over a long period in order to resolve the time and
space scales of the coastal, littoral, and other flows.
Date: May 25, 1979
B. Sub-seabed Disposal
1. Page 3.6.1, line 23 from top and page 3.6.4, line 18 from bottom:
To : R. Lehman, PP/EC
Office of the Administrator, NOAA, Washington, D.C.
From: F. Chew, AOML/NOAA (. . if 6
A surface current gyre is a partially closed circulatory (not circular)
system of surface and upper layer waters.
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/OAA r 2. Page 3.6.6, line 6 from bottom (including footnote):
Subj: Comments and suggestions on the physical oceanographic aspects of
DEIS 7904.32 - Management of Commercially Generated Radioactive
Waste
Supposing the correctness of the assumptions, the breakthrough time,
T, is not a million years, but is
T = D 2 /A = (100 m) 2 /(3 x 10-6cm 2 /yr) = 3 x 10 3 As instructed by Dr. D. Hansen, Director (Acting), AOML, this is in reply
to your memo of April 26, 1979. 3.
yrs.
Page 3.6.7, line 19 from bottom:
A. Island Disposal The bottom flow is not uniform and plate-like. The mean flow is
thought to be slow, but there is a transient component that is
1. Page 3.5.21, line 13 from top: related principally to the tides. Within about 5 m of the bottom
there is a boundary layer that is thought dynamically analogous to
The hydraulic gradient and the stability of freshwater lens may also the lowest 2 km in the atmosphere. See Wimbush, M. and W. Munk
be affected by sea level slope induced by coastal currents and topo- (1970):. The Benthic Layer n THE SEA, Vol. 4, pt. 1, A. E. Maxwell,
graphic focusing of surface and internal gravity waves. Editor.
2. Page 3.5.23, line 9 from bottom: 4. Page 3.6.7, line 17 from bottom:
Sea level slope is another factor in the stability of freshwater lens. Delete estimates of barrier properties, or add "if any" to read:
to allow estimates of the barrier properties, if any, of the water
3. Page 3.5.24, line 8 from top: column,....
Factors of importance to sediment patterns and movements include tides, 5. Page 3.6.17, line 1 from top:
land discharges, coastal circulation, littoral currents induced by
surface gravity waves, and direct wave actions during storm and Tsumani. Replace sentence beginning on line 1 with: The long-term stability
of the patterns suggests a weak current regime.
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6. Page 3.6.20, line 10 from bottom:
Replace the sentence beginning with "However", on line 13 with:
However, their natures and time variant behaviors, particularly of
subsurface currents, are incompletely understood,
Replace "a poor" with "no" in the sentence beginning on line 10 so
so that it reads: For reasons given, the water column is likely to
be no barrier against large quantities of nuclides....
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