Paul C. Etter - Underwater Acoustic Modelling and Simulation - 3rd Ed. Taylor & Francis Group 2003 0203419103 (447s).pdf

Underwater Acoustic Modeling
and Simulation
Third edition
Underwater Acoustic Modeling
and Simulation
Third edition
Paul C. Etter
First published 2003
by Spon Press
11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE
Simultaneously published in the USAand Canada
by Spon Press
29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001
This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2003.
Spon Press is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group
© 2003 Paul C. Etter
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ISBN 0-203-41765-8 Master e-book ISBN
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ISBN 0–419–26220–2 (Print Edition)
To my wife Alice and my sons Gregory and Andrew
Contents
Preface xv
Preface to the second edition xvii
Preface to the first edition xix
Acknowledgments xxi
1 Introduction 1
Background 1
Setting 1
Framework2
Measurements and prediction 4
Developments in modeling 6
Advances in simulation 9
Operational challenges 10
Naval operations 11
Offshore industries 13
Operational oceanography 14
Inverse acoustic sensing of the oceans 15
Standard definitions 17
2 Acoustical oceanography 19
Background 19
Physical and chemical properties 19
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