Acoustic inversions for measuring boundary layer suspended sediment processes

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 130, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1188-1200

  Thorne, Peter D ^a   Hurther, David ^b   Moate, Benjamin D ^a  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE APPROACH; BACKSCATTERED SIGNAL; DUAL FREQUENCY; EXPLICIT SOLUTIONS; IMPLICIT FORMULATION; INVERSION ERRORS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; MEASURING BOUNDARIES; SCATTERING CHAR-ACTERISTICS; SCATTERING PROPERTY; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT PROCESS;

ACOUSTIC WAVE SCATTERING; ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; ERRORS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

SUSPENDED SEDIMENTS;

WATER;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INSTRUMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOTION; PARTICLE SIZE; RADIATION SCATTERING; SEA; SEDIMENT; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOUND; SOUND DETECTION; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME; TRANSDUCER;

ACOUSTICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOTION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; OCEANS AND SEAS; PARTICLE SIZE; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOUND; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; TIME FACTORS; TRANSDUCERS; WATER;

EID: 80052533426     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3618728     Document Type: Article

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