Analysis of multipath scintillations from long range acoustic transmissions on the New England continental slope and shelf

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 117, Issue 3 I, 2005, Pages 1038-1057

  Fredricks, Andrew ^a   Colosi, John A ^a   Lynch, James F ^a   Gawarkiewicz, Glen ^a   Chiu, Ching Sang ^b   Abbot, Philip ^c  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

^c OASIS Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; BATHYMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MULTIPATH PROPAGATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SCINTILLATION;

CONTINENTAL SLOPE; LOG-INTENSITY VARIANCE; LONG RANGE ACOUSTIC TRANSMISSION; MULTIPATH SCINTILLATIONS;

ACOUSTIC WAVE TRANSMISSION;

ARTICLE; CONTINENTAL SHELF; FREQUENCY ANALYZER; GEOLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND INTENSITY; SOUND TRANSMISSION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 14844346918     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1835510     Document Type: Article

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