Travel time stability in weakly range-dependent sound channels

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 115, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 1068-1077

  Beron Vera, Francisco J ^a   Brown, Michael G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; SCATTERING; STABILITY;

ROUGH SURFACE SCATTERING; TRAVEL TIME STABILITY;

ACOUSTICS;

SEA WATER;

ACOUSTIC METHOD; DEEP SEA; INTERNAL WAVE; OCEAN WAVE; SOUND SCATTERING; TRAVEL TIME;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; MEASUREMENT; OCEANIC REGIONS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND; SOUND TRANSMISSION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THEORY; TIME; TRAVEL; UNDERWATER SOUND; VELOCITY;

EID: 1542347078     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1648320     Document Type: Article

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