Evidence for a common scale O(0.1) m that controls seabed scattering and reverberation in shallow water

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 132, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 2232-2238

  Holland, Charles W ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC FIELDS;

CONTINENTAL SHELF REGIONS; CRITICAL ANGLES; GEOLOGIC PROCESS; GEOLOGICAL SETTING; INTERFACE SCATTERING; SEDIMENT VOLUMES; SHALLOW WATERS; SPECTRAL CONTENT;

REVERBERATION;

EID: 84867368229     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4746985     Document Type: Article

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