Browsing Reprints by Subject "Modelling and environmental measurements"
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A theoretical model for the backscattering strength of a composite roughness sea-surface
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1974/02)The surface-backscattering strength is calculated according to Rayleigh theory for surface excursions much smaller than the sound wavelength. By taking into account of self-shadowing and modulation of grazing angles, the ... -
A wave-theoretic method for estimating the effects of internal tides on acoustic wave transmission
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1975/10)The effect of the first mode semidiurnal internal tide on a ducttype sound speed profile was approximated by varying the minimum velocity of the parabolic profile in a sinusoidal fashion with a period of 12.42 hours. The ... -
Acoustic characterization of a shallow water site
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1993/08)Results are presented from an exercise aimed at providing a low frequency active sonar environmental characterization of a specific shallow water site in the Gulf of Mexico. Downward refracting acoustic transmission and ... -
Benefit assessment of glider adaptive sampling in the Ligurian Sea
(CMRE, 2014/01)The benefits of piloting a glider during a 6-day period via an adaptive sampling procedure in a 80 × 60 km2 marine area are assessed under a fully operational framework. The glider trajectory was adapted to reduce the ocean ... -
Bottom time spread and bistatic scattering by rough basalt
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1993/08)Scattering from oceanic basalt affects low-frequency active sonar systems in at least two important ways: (1) Significant time, angle and frequency spreading reduces target echo levels when systems over-resolve the spread; ... -
Comparison of measured reverberation on the transmission loss data with modelled results on the West Florida continental shelf
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1993/08)Acoustic data from the September, 1992 Area Characterization Test (ACT I) are compared to ADAM (Advanced Development Acoustic Model) output. Conduct of harsh shallow water acoustic exercises, and data interpretation mandates ... -
Distributed underwater glider network with consensus Kalman filter for environmental field estimation
(CMRE, 2019/06)A distributed coordinated dynamic sensor network for optimal environmental field estimation is proposed and tested on simulated and real data. The architecture is used to distribute the estimation of 3D timevarying fields ... -
Environmental impact on mobile sonar shallow water operations
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1993/08)Shallow Water operations provide unique challenges for mobile sonars. In many cases propagation conditions can be optimized - our studies have shown that sound channeling can occur in approximately 75% of the strategic ... -
Interface wave studies on the Ligurian shelf usingan OBS array: experimental results and propagation models
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1986/06)Seismic waves travelling in the water/sediment or subbottom sediment/sediment interface have been the subject of considerable interest in recent years. Experiments have confirmed the existence of interface waves in different ... -
Low-frequency acoustic measurements in a shallow-water area with a rough sea surface
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1975/10)Surface wave spectra have been measured in the North Sea simultaneously with acoustic investigations using explosive and CW sources. The goal of these experiments was to determine the influence of surface waves to low-frequency ... -
Low-frequency ambient noise in the deep sound channel: the missing component
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1981/07)There is an important component of the undersea ambient noise which has generally been overlooked or ignored. It is the noise which arrives at a sensor, located in a deep sound channel, by way of ducted sound propagation. ... -
Magnetic, gravity and depth surveys in the Mediterranean and Red Sea
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1965/04)This report is a copy of a paper published in Nature, Vol. 204, 4965, 1964: 1245-1248 by T.D. Allan of this Centre, H. Charnock of this Centre at the time of the surveys but now of the National Institute of Oceanography, ... -
Modeling range-dependent, high-frequency, shallow-water torpedo reverberation data
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1997)The high-frequency, forward bottom losses predicted by a lossy Rayleigh and a Biot poroelastic sediment model are substantially different. These differences will accumulate and become measurable in multiple bottom bounce ... -
Multistatic bottom reverberation in shallow water
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1997)A wavenumber integration approach to modeling of the full multistatic reverberant field produced by small-scale bottom roughness in stratified shallow water waveguides has been developed. A perturbation approach to rough ... -
Shallow-water sound transmission measurements taken on the New Jersey continental shelf
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1993/08)Calibrated acoustic measurements were made under calm sea state conditions on the New Jersey shelf near the AMCOR 6010 borehole, a surveyed area with known geophysical properties. The experiment was conducted in 73 m water ... -
Site and frequency dependence of ambient noise in the North Eastern Pacific Ocean
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1982/06)One-hour averages of omnidirectional ambient noise measurements at 60 Hz and 165 Hz are analyzed for two nearby, deep ocean sites in the Northeastern Pacific during February and March 1981. Site A is a high noise site and ... -
Sound propagation in shallow water: a detailed description of the acoustic field close to surface and bottom
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1982/02)Experimental data are compared with normal-mode predictions for an isovelocity shallow-water propagation channel overlying a complicated layered bottom. Measurements were made close to both the sea surface and the sea floor ... -
Spatial and temporal coherence in a long range, upslope environment
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1993/08)In an active acoustic test conducted off the USA Pacific Coast in November-December 1991, a low-frequency source, kept stationary over the deep basin, insonified from long range the coastal slope and shelf. An autonomous, ... -
Spatial variability of surficial shallow water sediment geoacoustic properties
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1986/06)Variability of surficial sediment geoacoustic properties was determined from cores collected at eight shallow-water continental shelf regions in the U.S., Italy and Australia. Highly porous muds found in low energy ... -
Surface duct propagation loss measurements and model predictions at low and mid frequencies
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1993/08)Side-by-side measurements of low- and mid-frequency propagation loss were obtained during a sea test conducted in the North Atlantic during February of 1992. These measurements are compared to each other and with model ...