Inversion for range-dependent water column sound speed profiles on the New Jersey shelf using a linearized perturbative method

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 127, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 3411-3421

  Ballard, Megan S ^a   Becker, Kyle M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC PROPAGATION; CONTINENTAL SLOPE; DIRECT MEASUREMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETER; EQUALITY CONSTRAINTS; HORIZONTAL WAVES; INVERSE TECHNIQUES; NEW JERSEY; PERTURBATIVE METHOD; SALTY WATER; SHALLOW WATERS; SHALLOW-WATER; SOUND SPEED; SOUND SPEED PROFILES; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; WATER COLUMNS; WAVE NUMBERS;

DATA FLOW ANALYSIS; LINEARIZATION; ULTRASONIC VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

SPEED;

EID: 77953599641     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3397451     Document Type: Article

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