Address Telephone number E Mail Address A budget estimate broken down to show salaries, equipment, ship time, etc. This should be as accurate as possible to assist us with our fiscal planning. If you submit more than one planning letter follow this sequence with a number. We will read all the planning letters and respond, either by E-mail or by phone, with encouragement, discouragement, or referral to another ONR program, where appropriate, by 13 April 2001. This has now been coupled to new opportunities to connect basic research programs more directly to both applied research programs and to the fleet.
Principle emphasis is on field research.
Modeling and laboratory work supported are expected to be very tightly coupled to real world observations. There is a high level of interest in the dynamics of marginal and semi-enclosed seas and straits, air sea interaction, surface and bottom boundary layer processes, meso and sub mesoscale variability, internal waves, and turbulence. Encouragement is also given to interdisciplinary programs elucidating the role of physical processes in biological, geological, atmospheric, acoustic and optical processes, with particular regard to their impact on current and planned Navy operational systems and models. The program encourages support of new types of in-situ sensing instrumentation and techniques. Also encouraged are analyses of data obtained in navy exercises which demonstrate the effect of the environment on specific navy operational system performance.