Laboratory calibration of upward looking sonars for measuring suspended frazil ice concentration

Cold Regions Science and Technology

Volumn 70, Issue , 2012, Pages 19-31

  Ghobrial, Tadros R ^a   Loewen, Mark R ^a   Hicks, Faye ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Acoustic backscatter strength; Frazil ice concentration; Frazil ice generation; Upward looking sonar

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC BACKSCATTER; ALBERTA; BACKSCATTER MODEL; BACKSCATTER STRENGTH; DIRECT MEASUREMENT; FRAZIL ICE; HIGH-FREQUENCY MODELS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LOW FREQUENCY; LOW-FREQUENCY DATA; MASS CONCENTRATION; QUANTITATIVE MEASUREMENT; REGRESSION EQUATION; SHAPE AND SIZE; SONAR MEASUREMENTS; SONAR SIGNALS; STEP BY STEP PROCEDURE; UPWARD-LOOKING SONARS;

BACKSCATTERING; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); SONAR; TANKS (CONTAINERS); UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

ICE;

BACKSCATTER; CALIBRATION; MODELING; PARTICLE SIZE; SONAR;

EID: 82955236085     PISSN: 0165232X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coldregions.2011.08.010     Document Type: Article

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