Sound scattering from oceanic turbulence

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2003, Pages

  Ross, Tetjana ^a   Lueck, Rolf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; BIOMASS; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; TEMPERATURE; TURBULENCE; ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; BACKSCATTERING; FORECASTING; MICROSTRUCTURE;

PLANKTONS; ACOUSTIC BACKSCATTER; ACOUSTIC FREQUENCY; OCEANIC TURBULENCE; SCATTERING AMPLITUDES; SCATTERING INTENSITY; STRONG SCATTERINGS; TURBULENT MICROSTRUCTURE; TURBULENT REGIONS;

OCEANOGRAPHY; ACOUSTIC WAVE SCATTERING;

ACOUSTIC PROPERTY; BACKSCATTER; OCEAN; REMOTE SENSING; TURBULENCE;

EID: 0043192571     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL016733     Document Type: Article

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