Acoustic scattering from double-diffusive microstructure

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 122, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1449-1462

  Lavery, Andone C ^a   Ross, Tetjana ^b  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; MICROSTRUCTURE; REMOTE SENSING;

ACOUSTIC SCATTERING; DOUBLE DIFFUSIVE LAYERING; OCEANIC MIXING;

ACOUSTIC WAVE SCATTERING;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; SOUND; SOUND TRANSMISSION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ACOUSTICS; DIFFUSION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OCEANOGRAPHY; OCEANS AND SEAS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOUND; TEMPERATURE; ULTRASONICS;

EID: 35248893973     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2764475     Document Type: Article

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