Ocean sound channel ray path perturbations from internal-wave shear and strain

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 118, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 2899-2903

  Duda, Timothy F ^a  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES;

ACOUSTIC RAY TRAJECTORIES; INTERNAL-WAVE STRAIN; STRAIN RATIOS; VORTICAL MODES;

OCEAN STRUCTURES;

SEA WATER;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; ENERGY; GEOMETRY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; OCEANIC REGIONS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALINITY; SHEAR RATE; SOUND TRANSMISSION; VELOCITY; WATER TEMPERATURE;

EID: 27744442507     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2062127     Document Type: Article

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