Observations of clustering inside oceanic bubble clouds and the effect on short-range acoustic propagation

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 124, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 2783-2792

  Weber, Thomas C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC PROPAGATIONS; BUBBLE CLOUDS; BUBBLY FLUIDS; EFFECTIVE MEDIUMS; FREQUENCY RANGES; GAS BUBBLES; GULF OF MAINE; HIGH FREQUENCIES; MEAN FIELDS; MULTIBEAM SONAR DATUMS; MULTIBEAM SONARS; PAIR CORRELATION FUNCTIONS; SURFACE BUBBLES; WIND SPEEDS;

ACOUSTIC ARRAYS; ACOUSTIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; ACOUSTIC FIELDS; ACOUSTIC WAVES; ACOUSTICS; CLOUDS; CORRELATION METHODS; FLOW OF SOLIDS; SONAR; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; GAS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; SOUND PRESSURE; SOUND TRANSMISSION; VELOCITY;

ACOUSTICS; GASES; MAINE; OCEANS AND SEAS; SEAWATER; SOUND LOCALIZATION; WEATHER; WIND;

EID: 56749159233     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2990707     Document Type: Article

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