Acoustic tomography of a coastal front in Haro Strait, British Columbia
Acoustic tomography of a coastal front in Haro Strait, British Columbia
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DOI:
10.1121/1.427046
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发表时间:
1999-06
影响因子:
2.4
通讯作者:
P. Elisseeff;H. Schmidt;Marvin L. Johnson;D. Herold;N. Chapman;M. McDonald
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作者:
P. Elisseeff;H. Schmidt;Marvin L. Johnson;D. Herold;N. Chapman;M. McDonald
An experiment validating the concept of acoustically focused oceanographic sampling (AFOS) was recently implemented in Haro Strait, British Columbia (Canada). Four 16-element vertical receiver arrays were moored around the location of a coastal front driven by estuarine and tidal forcing. Various signals were transmitted from array to array and from a moving source to the arrays over a period of five weeks. Tomographic signals were transmitted over a wide frequency band (150 Hz to 15 kHz). The novelty of the Haro Strait data set resides in its unusual tomographic features: ranges are short (less than 3 km), sound speed perturbations are small (2 to 3 m/s), and currents are relatively strong (3.5 kts). Light-bulb-generated wideband acoustic signals are used in this paper in conjunction with local nonacoustic measurements in order to image the three-dimensional sound speed and current fields within the water mass enclosed by the moored arrays. The combined use of integral and local data leads to a significa...