Predicting acoustic effects of internal waves from the basic climatology of the world ocean

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 107, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 747-757

  Noble, Kimberly J ^a   Flatté, Stanley M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; CLIMATOLOGY; GLOBAL OCEAN; INTERNAL WAVE;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; CLIMATE; DATA BASE; DENSITY GRADIENT; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; OCEANIC REGIONS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND DETECTION;

EID: 0033973449     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.428258     Document Type: Article

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