Publication Date:
2022-05-25
Description:
Author Posting. © Acoustical Society of America, 2011. This article is posted here by permission of Acoustical Society of America for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 131 (2012): EL1-EL7, doi:10.1121/1.3662030.
Description:
The horizontal ducting of sound by an oceanic temperature front over a sloping bottom is studied with an idealized wedge model consisting of a lateral interface across the slope. The water outside the frontal interface has higher temperature, hence faster sound speed, and it will produce inshore reflection/refraction of the sound. Combining the offshore refraction caused by the sloping bottom, propagating sound can be ducted along the front. An analytical solution to the sound pressure field in the idealized model is derived, and an example is presented to demonstrate and discuss the ducting effect.
Description:
This work was sponsored by the Office of Naval Research under Grant No. N00014-10-1-0040.
Keywords:
Acoustic wave propagation
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Acoustic wave reflection
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Acoustic wave refraction
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Underwater sound
Repository Name:
Woods Hole Open Access Server
Type:
Article
Format:
application/pdf
