Relative contribution of temperature and salinity to ocean acoustic reflectivity

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 20, 2009, Pages

  Sallares V ^a   Biescas, B ^a   Buffett, G ^b   Carbonell, R ^b   Danobeitia J J ^a   Pelegri J L ^c  

^a CSIC Unidad de Tecnologia Marina UTM   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES JAUME ALMERA   (Spain)

^c INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; DENSITY VARIATIONS; DIFFUSIVE CONVECTION; GULF OF CADIZ; OCEAN ACOUSTICS; PARTIAL DERIVATIVES; REFLECTION COEFFICIENTS; REFLECTIVITY MAPS; RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION; SEISMIC DATAS; SOUND SPEED; TEMPERATURE CONTRAST; WATER COLUMNS; WATER MASS;

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; ACOUSTICS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SEISMOLOGY; ULTRASONIC VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

REFLECTION;

ACOUSTIC METHOD; DATA SET; REFLECTIVITY; SALINITY; SEISMIC DATA; SOUND VELOCITY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; UNDERCURRENT; WATER COLUMN; WATER MASS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF CADIZ;

EID: 72149084920     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL040187     Document Type: Article

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