Experimental Testing of Acoustic Thermometry at the Scale of the Sea of Japan with a Receiver System Placed on the Axis of an Underwater Sound Channel

Abstract—We discuss the results obtained when performing a test acoustic-hydrological experiment in August 2022 at a marine test site from the coast of Sakhalin Island to Kita-Yamato Bank in the Sea of Japan. The methodology of preliminary studies in the water area intended for studying climatic variability of temperature regimes of the aquatic environment based on numerical modeling using the RAY computational program and the NEMO ocean hydrodynamic circulation model is presented. One of the main results is the average temperature of the marine environment calculated with high accuracy on the axis of the underwater sound channel in the Sea of Japan on the 1000-kilometer acoustic trace at the crossing of the vortex system. The shape of the measuring system and the technical and computational means and methods described in the article can be used as a basis for the organization of high-precision operational monitoring of thermodynamic processes in extended sea areas.