Sound propagation in a turbulent atmosphere near the ground: An approach based on the spectral representation of refractive-index fluctuations

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 109, Issue 5 I, 2001, Pages 1881-1893

  Salomons, Erik M ^a   Ostashev, Vladimir E ^b,c   Clifford, Steven F ^b   Lataitis, Richard J ^b  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; ACOUSTIC WAVE REFLECTION; APPROXIMATION THEORY; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; REFRACTIVE INDEX; STATISTICAL METHODS;

RYTOV SOLUTION;

ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION;

ATMOSPHERE; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SOUND PROPAGATION; TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYER;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DIFFUSION; CALCULATION; FOURIER ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND; SPECTROSCOPY; STATISTICS; SURFACE PROPERTY; WAVEFORM;

EID: 0035026176     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1356021     Document Type: Article

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