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This discussion centers on the methodology for monitoring global warming through ocean temperature measurements using sound pulse travel times. Researchers utilize sound waves, which travel at an average speed of 7600 meters per second at a depth of 1000 meters, where the temperature is approximately 4°C. The discussion highlights the need for specific values regarding sound speed increase per degree Celsius to calculate the smallest measurable temperature change based on a detectable time change of 1.0 seconds.

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One way to monitor global warming is to measure the average temperature of the ocean. Researchers are doing this by measuring the time it takes sound pulses to travel underwater over large distances. At a depth of 1000 m, where ocean temperatures hold steady near 4C, the average sound speed is . It's known from laboratory measurements that the sound speed increases for every 1.0C increase in temperature. In one experiment, where sounds generated near California are detected in the South Pacific, the sound waves travel 7600 .


If the smallest time change that can be reliably detected is 1.0 s, what is the smallest change in average temperature that can be measured?
 
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like: "The average sound speed is _____."

and: "...the sound speed increases _____ for every 1.0C increase in temperature."
 

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