Characteristics of acoustic propagation to the eastern vertical line array receiver during the summer 1996 New England Shelfbreak PRIMER Experiment

IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 729-749

  Sperry, Brian J ^a   Lynch, James F ^b   Gawarkiewicz, Glen ^b   Chiu, Ching Sang ^c   Newhall, Arthur ^b  

^a SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

PRIMER experiment; Shallow water acoustics; Shelfbreak front

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC ARRAYS; ACOUSTIC FIELDS; ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; ACOUSTIC WAVE TRANSMISSION; BATHYMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; RADIOMETRY; SENSORS; SOLITONS;

SHALLOW-WATER ACOUSTICS; SHELFBREAK FRONT;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

EID: 0347270280     PISSN: 03649059     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JOE.2003.819153     Document Type: Article

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