Observations of the R reflector and sediment interface reflection at the Shallow Water '06 central site

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 124, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Choi, Jee Woong ^a   Dahl, Peter H ^b   Goff, John A ^c  

^a Hanyang University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; EXPERIMENTS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SPEED; STRATIGRAPHY; ULTRASONIC VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; WAVE EQUATIONS;

BOTTOM REFLECTION; DISPERSION EFFECTS; FORWARD MODELLING; FREQUENCY RANGING; GEO-ACOUSTIC PARAMETERS; NONLINEAR ATTENUATION; PARABOLIC WAVE EQUATIONS; REFLECTION COEFFICIENTS; SEDIMENT INTERFACE; SEDIMENT LAYERING; SHALLOW WATERS; SOUND SPEED; THIN LAYERING;

REFLECTION;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEASUREMENT; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAND; SEDIMENT; VELOCITY;

ACOUSTICS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOTION; NEW JERSEY; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; RADAR; SOUND; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 52449131980     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2963048     Document Type: Article

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