Sound speed and void fraction profiles in the sea surface bubble layer

Applied Acoustics

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 225-250

  Buckingham, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; BUBBLE FORMATION; DIFFUSION; HYDRODYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; SPEED; SURFACE WATERS; WIND EFFECTS;

SEA SURFACE BUBBLE LAYER; SOUND SPEED; VOID FRACTION PROFILE;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

EID: 0031192930     PISSN: 0003682X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-682X(97)00002-9     Document Type: Article

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