Acoustic propagation uncertainty in the shallow East China Sea

IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 368-383

  Abbot, Philip ^a   Dyer, Ira ^a,b   Emerson, Chris ^a  

^a Ocean Acoustical Services and Instrumentation Systems (OASIS) Inc   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Littoral environment; Transmission loss (TL); Uncertainty; Underwater acoustic measurements; Underwater acoustic propagation; Underwater acoustics

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; ACOUSTIC WAVE TRANSMISSION; DATA REDUCTION; RANDOM PROCESSES; STATISTICAL METHODS;

LITTORAL ENVIRONMENT; TRANSMISSION LOSS; UNDERWATER ACOUSTIC MEASUREMENTS; UNDERWATER ACOUSTIC PROPAGATION;

UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

EID: 33750108216     PISSN: 03649059     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JOE.2006.875103     Document Type: Article

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