Acoustic Properties of Bubble Plumes

Abstract

The scientific goal of this work was to better understand the process of air entrainment by breaking waves and its influence on the sound speed field in the surface layers of the ocean. The program had two principal components: (a) The development and deployment of an autonomous sound speed profiling buoy, its deployment, and the analysis of the collected data. (b) The development of models for the evolution of the bubble size distribution. The initial development of the program focused on participation in the Acoustic Surface Reverberation Experiment (ASREX) in the N. Atlantic in the winter of 1993-94. Other components of the program included the analysis of ambient sound and environmental data collected during SWADE and NOBS, and the completion of doctoral thesis research and publications at MIT.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2000
Accession Number
ADA425367

Entities

People

  • Ken Melville

Organizations

  • Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acoustic Measurement
  • Acoustic Properties
  • Acoustics
  • Air Entrainment
  • Ambient Noise
  • Deployment
  • Entrainment
  • Frequency
  • Measurement
  • Military Research
  • Oceans
  • Probability Distributions
  • Resonant Frequency
  • Reverberation
  • Shallow Water
  • Surface Waves
  • Waves

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Acoustical Oceanography.
  • Coastal Oceanography
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.