The impact of ocean sound speed variability on the uncertainty of geoacousticparameter estimates

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 125, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 2881-2895

  Jiang, Yong Min ^a   Chapman, N Ross ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC DATUM; BAYESIAN; CONTINENTAL SHELVES; CONTINUOUS WAVES; EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTIONS; GEO-ACOUSTIC PARAMETERS; GEOACOUSTIC; GEOACOUSTIC INVERSIONS; GEOACOUSTIC MODELS; INFLUENCE OF WATERS; MATCHED FIELD INVERSIONS; NEW JERSEYS; OCEANOGRAPHIC VARIABILITIES; PARAMETER CORRELATIONS; SHALLOW WATERS; SMALL SAMPLES; SOUND SPEED; SOUND SPEED PROFILES; WATER COLUMNS;

ACOUSTIC WAVE TRANSMISSION; FOURIER ANALYSIS; OCEAN ENGINEERING; OCEANOGRAPHY; SPEED; ULTRASONIC VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

WATER;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CONTINENTAL SHELF; ENVIRONMENT; ERROR; GEOMETRY; OCEANOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; SOUND; UNITED STATES; VELOCITY;

EID: 65549147274     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3097770     Document Type: Article

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