The developments in the field of ocean acoustics over recent years make this book an important reference for specialists in acoustics, oceanography, marine biology, and related fields. Fundamentals of Acoustical Oceanography also encourages a new generation of scientists, engineers, and entrepreneurs to apply the modern methods of acoustical physics to probe the unknown sea. The book is an authoritative, modern text with examples and exercises. It contains techniques to solve the direct problems, solutions of inverse problems, and an extensive bibliography from the earliest use of sound in the sea to present references. Written by internationally recognized scientists, the book provides background to measure ocean parameters and processes, find life and objects in the sea, communicate underwater, and survey the boundaries of the sea. Fundamentals of Acoustical Oceanography explains principles of underwater sound propagation, and describes how both actively probing sonars and passively listening hydrophones can reveal what the eye cannot see over vast ranges of the turbid ocean. This book demonstrates how to use acoustical remote sensing, variations in sound transmission, in situ acoustical measurements, and computer and laboratory models to identify the physical and biological parameters and processes in the sea. * Offers an integrated, modern approach to passive and active underwater acoustics * Contains many examples of laboratory scale models of ocean-acoustic environments, as well as descriptions of experiments at sea * Covers remote sensing of marine life and the seafloor * Includes signal processing of ocean sounds, physical and biological noises at sea, and inversions * resents sound sources, receivers, and calibration * Explains high intensities; explosive waves, parametric sources, cavitation, shock waves, and streaming * Covers microbubbles from breaking waves, rainfall, dispersion, and attenuation * Describes sound propagation along ray paths and caustics * Presents sound transmissions and normal mode methods in ocean waveguides

Fundamentals of Acoustical Oceanography (Applications of Modern Acoustics)

Science & Math

Medwin, Herman

Clay, Clarence S.

Earth Sciences

Academic Press

An Acoustical View of the Sea. Sound Waves and Huygens2 Principle. Sound Transmission in the Ocean. Signals, Filters and Random Functions. Operating Characteristics of Sonar Systems, Scattering and Absorption by Bodies and Bubbles. Measurements of Fish and Other Life in the Sea. Seismic and Acoustical Measurements of the Sea Floor. Long Range Sound Transmission in a Waveguide. Scatter and Reflection of Sound at Rough Surfaces.

Acoustical Oceanography: Principles and Applications (Ocean Engineering: A Wiley Series)

wiley

Sounds in the Sea: From Ocean Acoustics to Acoustical Oceanography

Nature & Ecology

Cambridge University Press

The first portion of this comprehensive textbook on ocean acoustics and acoustical oceanography introduces the basic tools used to determine the detailed characteristics of physical and biological bodies and processes at sea. Written by many internationally recognized ocean researchers, the following fifteen chapters describe modern research developments. This invaluable textbook for students in oceanography, engineering, and physics will also serve as a reference for researchers and professionals.

Biological Sciences

Sounds in the Sea

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