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Influence of internal waves on sound propagation in the SOFAR channel
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1975/10)In this paper theoretical investigations due to the influence of internal waves to sound propagation in the SOFAR-channel are presented. The undisturbed acoustic field is described by a normal-mode model. The disturbance ... -
Range-dependent normal modes in underwater sound propagation
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1975/10)Normal mode theory is best suited for the case of stratified media. Range dependence of the medium properties and of its boundary may nevertheless be taken into account in the framework of an adiabatic approximation provided ... -
Stochastic methods of sound-field computation
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Two dimensional internal-wave spectra
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1975/10)Although spatial fluctuations of the sound speed in the ocean have a variety of causes, internal waves are thought to produce most of the fluctuations over horizontal scales ranging from several tens of metres to several ... -
Connection between the solution of the Helmholtz and parabolic equations for sound propagation
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1975/10)Using a conformal mapping technique in a rectangular waveguide, we present an exact integral relation between the solutions of the Helmholtz equation whose sound speed c(x,y) varies as a function of both depth y and range ... -
Internal oceanographic microstructure phenomena
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1975/10)This paper is concerned with the nature and causes of both fine structure and microstructure in the ocean. Following an account of the acoustic/oceanographic background to subject, the characteristics of fine structure are ... -
Beam spreading and loss of spatial coherence in an inhomogeneous and fluctuating ocean
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1975/10)A theory has been developed that enables estimates to be made of beam bending, beam spreading and loss of spatial coherence. In this paper we concentrate on the loss of spatial coherence due to scattering. Using a minus ... -
Measurements of normal-mode amplitude functions in a nearly-stratified medium
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1975/10)In normal-mode treatments of acoustic propagation in nearly-stratified media, calculations are frequently based on the perfectly-stratified medium model, in which symmetry permits separation of the wave equationo In these ... -
Theory of scattering and reflection of sound from the sea surface
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1975/10)Theoretical work on scattering and reflection of sound from the random timevarying rough sea surface is critically reviewed. It is shown that sound scattering from the sea surface may be treated as a purely acoustic boundary ... -
Underwater acoustics - modelling: keynote address
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Highlights of bottom topography inferred from received depression and bearing angles
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1975/10)Statistical properties of the acoustic reflection from the ocean floor have been studied for a var i.ety of bottom types including deep, smooth, flat topography thorough, jagged bottom in shallower (~l km) depths. Explosive ... -
Some effects of large-scale oceanography on acoustic propagation
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1975/10)A propagation experiment was conducted along a great circle track in the North American Basin, beginning at a point 400 km north of Antigua, W.I. and ending at the Grand Banks of Newfoundland. Shallow explosive sources ... -
A solution of of the wave sound equation in shallow water for real speed profiles and solid bottom under sediment
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1975/10)The wave equation has been solved by using normal mode theory. The medium is assumed to be horizontally stratified. A closed form solution has been found in the case of GANS - PEDERSEN types of density and sound-speed ... -
Refraction of sound in the sea floor
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1975/10)A major mode of propagation of acoustic energy at low frequencies is a shallow refracted path through unconsolidated sediments of the sea floor. Successful modelling of the bottom-refracted mode of propagation requires ... -
A theoretical model for doppler spread of backscattered sound from a composite roughness sea surface
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1975/10)For calculating the Doppler spread of acoustical reverberation from the sea surface, good results are achieved by applying a composite-roughness model. The small wavelets primarily responsible for the backscattering are ... -
Ocean-bottom reflectivity (a point of view)
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1975/10)The analysis procedures for extracting bottom loss values from pulsed acoustic signals that have interacted with the ocean bottom do not inherently consider sub-bottom refraction and reflection of sound, which are important ... -
Reflection of sound from a layered ocean bottom
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Acoustic effects of internal microstructure
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Intensity-range relations for shallow-water sound propagation
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1976/04)Convincing experimental evidence is presented to show that various "decay laws" for the decrease of sound intensity with increasing range can give high-quality representation for shallow water data. However, while a sequence ... -
Calculation of reverberation and average intensity of broadband acoustic signals in the ocean by means of the RAIBAC computer model
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1976/04)Based on the conventional ray-tracing principle, a fast numerical algorithm is developed that calculates averaged propagation loss and reverberation of underwater sound. The averaging is performed by summing incoherently ...