Deep Water Ocean Acoustics

Abstract

The goal of this research is to increase our understanding of the impact of the ocean and seafloor environmental variability on deep-water (long-range) ocean acoustic propagation and to develop methodologies for including this in acoustic models. Experimental analysis is combined with model development to isolate specific physics and improve our understanding. During the past few years, the physics effects studied have been three-dimensional propagation on global scales, deep water ambient noise, under-ice scattering, bathymetric diffraction and the application of the ocean acoustic Parabolic Equation to infrasound.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 17, 2015
Accession Number
ADA619524

Entities

People

  • Kevin Heaney

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acoustic Fields
  • Acoustic Propagation
  • Acoustics
  • Ambient Noise
  • Data Analysis
  • Deep Water
  • Diffraction
  • Frequency
  • Grids
  • Oceans
  • Physics
  • Refraction
  • Sea Surface Temperature
  • Surface Temperature
  • Three Dimensional
  • United States
  • Water

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Acoustical Oceanography.