Another look at the 1960 Perth to Bermuda long-range acoustic propagation experiment

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2008, Pages

  Dushaw, Brian D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CRACK PROPAGATION; DETECTORS; ELECTROACOUSTIC TRANSDUCERS; EXPERIMENTS; EXPLOSIVES; HYDROPHONES; OCEANOGRAPHY;

ACOUSTIC SHADOW; AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION; CHANNEL AXIS; GLOBAL OCEANS; HYDROPHONE ARRAYS; INTRA ANNUAL VARIABILITY; LONG-RANGE ACOUSTIC PROPAGATION; OCEAN ACOUSTIC PROPAGATION; PERTH , AUSTRALIA; SOUND SOURCES; SOUND SPEED; TOPOGRAPHIC FEATURES;

ACOUSTICS;

ACOUSTIC ARRAY; ACOUSTIC SURVEY; ACOUSTIC WAVE; ANNUAL VARIATION; HYDROPHONE; LONG RANGE TRANSPORT; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SOUND PROPAGATION; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; TRAVEL TIME; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; BERMUDA; PERTH [WESTERN AUSTRALIA]; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 48249106318     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL033415     Document Type: Article

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