Coupled ocean-acoustic prediction of transmission loss in a continental shelfbreak region: Predictive skill, uncertainty quantification, and dynamical sensitivities

IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 895-916

  Lermusiaux, Pierre F J ^a   Xu, Jinshan ^a   Chen, Chi Fang ^b   Jan, Sen ^b   Chiu, Linus Y ^b   Yang, Yiing Jang ^c  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c Chinese Naval Academy Kaohsiung   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Coastal ocean; data assimilation; distributed and many task computing; ensemble prediction; interdisciplinary modeling; internal tides; shelf and shelfbreak sound propagation; uncertainty quantification; underwater acoustics

Indexed keywords

COASTAL OCEAN; DATA ASSIMILATION; DISTRIBUTED AND MANY-TASK COMPUTING; ENSEMBLE PREDICTION; INTERDISCIPLINARY MODELING; INTERNAL TIDES; SOUND PROPAGATION; UNCERTAINTY QUANTIFICATIONS;

ACOUSTIC FIELDS; ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; ACOUSTIC WAVE TRANSMISSION; BATHYMETRY; BEARINGS (STRUCTURAL); DATA PROCESSING; EXPERIMENTS; FORECASTING; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TIDES;

UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

EID: 78649720672     PISSN: 03649059     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JOE.2010.2068611     Document Type: Article

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