The impact of water column variability on horizontal wave number estimation and mode based geoacoustic inversion results

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 123, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 658-666

  Becker, Kyle M ^a   Frisk, George V ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Florida Atlantic University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; GEOLOGIC MODELS; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; MODAL ANALYSIS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES;

BACKGROUD WAVEGUIDE MODELS; GEOACOUSTIC INVERSION; POINT SOURCE ACOUSTIC FIELDS; WATER COLUMNS;

PRESSURE MEASUREMENT;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; CONDUCTANCE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 38849130723     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2821976     Document Type: Article

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