The effect of wind-generated bubbles on sea-surface backscattering at 940 Hz

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 130, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 3413-3420

  Van Vossen, Robbert ^a   Ainslie, Michael A ^a,b  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING STRENGTH; BUBBLE CLOUD; FREE PARAMETERS; GRAZING ANGLES; LOW-FREQUENCY ACTIVE SONAR; MODEL RESULTS; PARAMETERIZED; PERFORMANCE MODELING; PHYSICAL MECHANISM; POTENTIAL MECHANISM; RELATIVE IMPORTANCE; ROUGH SURFACE SCATTERING; SCATTERING MODEL; SCATTERING STRENGTH; SEATESTS; SIZE SPECTRUM; SPECTRAL SLOPES; THEORETICAL PREDICTION;

FORECASTING; SONAR; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

BACKSCATTERING;

WATER;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; MOTION; PARTICLE SIZE; RADIATION SCATTERING; SEA; SOUND; SURFACE PROPERTY; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME; ULTRASOUND; WIND;

ABSORPTION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOTION; OCEANS AND SEAS; PARTICLE SIZE; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SOUND; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TIME FACTORS; ULTRASONICS; WATER; WIND;

EID: 81355133048     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3626125     Document Type: Article

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