Long-range reverberation in an Arctic environment: Effects of ice thickness and elasticity

Abstract

A full-field perturbation approach is modified for an ice-covered ocean and applied to estimating narrowband long-range reverberation caused by roughness of the ice-water interface. First-order approximation of the approach is used which requires the roughness amplitudes be small compared to the acoustic wavelength. To obtain the zeroth-order Green's function and transmission loss field used in the reverberation model, elastic parabolic equation solutions are generated in range-independent environments. Ice is represented by an isospeed layer on top of a linear transition layer. Effects of ice properties are discussed and demonstrated by comparing reverberation calculated for different ice layer thicknesses and wave speeds for typical ice values.

Document Details

Document Type
Pub Defense Publication
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2018
Source ID
10.1121/1.5025841

Entities

People

  • Anatoliy Ivakin
  • Scott D. Frank

Organizations

  • Marist University
  • Office of Naval Research
  • Simons Foundation
  • University of Washington

Tags

Readers

  • Acoustical Oceanography.
  • Fluid Dynamics.
  • Polar and Arctic Studies