The contribution of bubbles to high-frequency sea surface backscatter: A 24-h time series of field measurements

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 113, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 769-780

  Dahl, Peter H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); HYSTERESIS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SURFACE WAVES;

PELAGIC WATERS;

ACOUSTIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING;

ACOUSTIC WAVE; BACKSCATTER; BUBBLE; SEA SURFACE; WAVE SCATTERING;

ACOUSTICS; AIR; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; EMPIRICISM; ENVIRONMENT; FIELD EXPERIMENT; FREQUENCY MODULATION; GRAZING; HYSTERESIS; MEASUREMENT; MODEL; PARAMETER; PELAGIC ZONE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA SURFACE WATERS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES; VELOCITY; WIND;

EID: 0037329644     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1532029     Document Type: Article

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