ASIAEX, East China Sea, Cruise Report of the Activities of the R/V Melville, 29 May to 9 June 2001

Abstract

Science teams from APL-UW, MPL-SIO, and URI deployed a constellation of instruments from the R/V Melville to measure acoustic propagation and scattering over a broad frequency range (100 Hz to 20 kHz), and environmental acoustic variables in the East China Sea (ECS). This work was completed from 29 May 2001 to 9 June 2001 as part of the Asian Seas International Acoustics Experiment (ASIAEX). From 2 to 5 June, operations from the Melville were coordinated with those of the Chinese research vessels Shi Yan 2 and Shi Yan 3 in order to conduct studies in wide-band propagation and reverberation using explosive charges deployed from both Chinese vessels. The ASIAEX ECS 2001 experiment produced a remarkable set of measurements on acoustic propagation and scattering in an Asian littoral sea, along with environmental measurements required for its interpretation.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 2001
Accession Number
ADA422598

Entities

People

  • Peter Hans Dahl

Organizations

  • University of Washington

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acoustic Measurement
  • Acoustic Propagation
  • Acoustics
  • Data Acquisition
  • East China Sea
  • Explosive Charges
  • Explosives
  • Frequency
  • Measurement
  • Oceans
  • Photographs
  • Physics
  • Physics Laboratories
  • Reverberation
  • Rhode Island
  • Scattering
  • Yellow Sea

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Acoustical Oceanography.
  • Asian Economic Studies
  • Oceanography.