Long-range acoustic scattering from a shallow-water mud-volcano cluster

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 122, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1946-1958

  Holland, Charles W ^a   Preston, John R ^a   Abraham, Douglas A ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CausaSci LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REVERBERATION; STATISTICAL METHODS; VOLCANOES;

GAS BUBBLES; MUD-VOLCANO CLUSTER; NON-RAYLEIGH STATISTICS;

ACOUSTIC WAVE SCATTERING;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; CHIMNEY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; VOLCANO;

EID: 34848872499     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2773995     Document Type: Article

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