Excess attenuation of an acoustic beam by turbulence

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 114, Issue 6 I, 2003, Pages 3102-3111

  Pan, Naixian ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; ATTENUATION; DATA PROCESSING; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; TELESCOPES; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ATMOSPHERIC ABSORPTION;

ACOUSTIC DEVICES;

ACOUSTICS;

ABSORPTION; ACOUSTICS; AIR TEMPERATURE; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CALCULATION; ERROR; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; SOUND; THERMODYNAMICS; VELOCITY;

EID: 0346847714     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1628679     Document Type: Article

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