Extracting coherent wave fronts from acoustic ambient noise in the ocean

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 116, Issue 4 I, 2004, Pages 1995-2003

  Roux, Philippe ^a   Kuperman, W A ^a   Colosi, J A ^a   Cornuelle, B D ^a   Dushaw, B D ^a   Dzieciuch, M A ^a   Howe, B M ^a   Mercer, J A ^a   Munk, W ^a   Spindel, R C ^a   Worcester, P F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; GREEN'S FUNCTION; HYDROPHONES; WATER WAVES; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ACOUSTIC AMBIENT NOISE; CORRELATION FUNCTIONS; SHALLOW WATER; SURFACE NOISE;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; INSTRUMENTATION; LABORATORY; LOUDNESS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; SIMULATION; SOUND LEVEL MEASUREMENT; THEORETICAL STUDY; TIME;

EID: 6344261552     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1797754     Document Type: Article

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