Acoustic propagation through an internal wave field in a shallow water waveguide

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 101, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 789-808

  Tielbürger, Dirk ^a,b   Finette, Steven ^a   Wolf, Stephen ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Forsch Anst der Bw fur W   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WATER;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; OCEANIC REGIONS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND TRANSMISSION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THEORY; VELOCITY;

EID: 1842339925     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.418039     Document Type: Article

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