Observations of broadband acoustic backscattering from nonlinear internal waves: Assessing the contribution from microstructure

IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 695-709

  Lavery, Andone C ^a   Chu, Dezhang ^b   Moum, James N ^c  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b North West Fisheries Science Center ^*  (United States)

^c OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic scattering; broadband; nonlinear internal waves; turbulent oceanic microstructure; zooplankton

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SCATTERING; BROADBAND; NONLINEAR INTERNAL WAVE; TURBULENT OCEANIC MICROSTRUCTURE; ZOOPLANKTON;

ACOUSTIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; ACOUSTIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; FREQUENCY BANDS; MICROSTRUCTURE; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ACOUSTIC WAVE SCATTERING;

EID: 78649729567     PISSN: 03649059     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JOE.2010.2047814     Document Type: Article

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