Monitoring temporal variability of bubble release at seeps: The hydroacoustic swath system GasQuant

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 113, Issue 7, 2008, Pages

  Greinert, Jens ^a,b  

^a GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); EXTRAPOLATION; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; MONITORING; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

AIR BUBBLE; COLD SEEP; MONITORING SYSTEM; REMOTE SENSING; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; SWATH BATHYMETRY; TEMPORAL VARIATION; VISUALIZATION;

BLACK SEA; CRIMEA SHELF; EURASIA;

EID: 51749118925     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007JC004704     Document Type: Article

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