Formulations for the scattering properties of suspended sandy sediments for use in the application of acoustics to sediment transport processes

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 309-317

  Thorne, Peter D ^a   Meral, Ramazan ^b  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b KAHRAMANMARAS SUTCU IMAM UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Acoustics; Attenuation; Instrumentation; Scattering; Sediments; Transport

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SURVEY; BACKSCATTER; GRAIN SIZE; INSTRUMENTATION; SAND; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT;

EID: 37849031546     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csr.2007.08.002     Document Type: Article

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