High-frequency acoustic scattering from turbulent oceanic microstructure: The importance of density fluctuations

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 114, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 2685-2697

  Lavery, Andone C ^a   Schmitt, Raymond W ^a   Stanton, Timothy K ^a  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE SCATTERING; BACKSCATTERING; ENERGY DISSIPATION; KINETIC ENERGY; MICROSTRUCTURE;

WAVE NUMBER;

ACOUSTICS;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; DENSITY; KINETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALINITY; SOUND INTENSITY; TEMPERATURE; ZOOPLANKTON;

MODELS, THEORETICAL; OCEANS AND SEAS; RADIO WAVES; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0242440798     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1614258     Document Type: Article

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