Scintillation index of high frequency acoustic signals forward scattered by the ocean surface

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 121, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 120-131

  Cotté, Benjamin ^a,b   Culver, R Lee ^a   Bradley, David L ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LABORATOIRE DE MÉCANIQUE DES FLUIDES ET D ACOUSTIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; BANDWIDTH; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SCINTILLATION; SURFACE WAVES;

CONTINUOUS WAVE (CW) PULSES; LINEAR FREQUENCY MODULATED (LFM) SWEEPS; OCEAN MEASUREMENTS; SCINTILLATION INDEX (SI);

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ARTICLE; DIFFRACTION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EXPERIMENTATION; GEOMETRY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCINTILLATION; SEA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOUND INTENSITY; SPECTROSCOPY; UNITED STATES; WIND;

EID: 33846211907     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2382457     Document Type: Article

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