Temperature contrasts in the water column inferred from amplitude- versus-offset analysis of acoustic reflections

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 24, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Páramo, Pedro ^a   Holbrook, W Steven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; ACOUSTIC WAVE REFLECTION; ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BATHYMETRY; DENSITY OF LIQUIDS; THERMOGRAPHY (TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT);

AMPLITUDE-VERSUS-OFFSET; EXPENDABLE BATHYTHERMOGRAPHS; WILSON'S EQUATION; ZOEPPRITZ EQUATIONS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

AVO METHOD; WATER COLUMN;

EID: 32644433042     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL024533     Document Type: Article

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