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    Analysis of internal wave induced mode coupling effects on the 1995 SWARM experiment acoustic transmissions

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    Date
    1997-06
    Author
    Headrick, Robert H.  Concept link
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    https://hdl.handle.net/1912/5730
    Location
    New Jersey coast
    DOI
    10.1575/1912/5730
    Keyword
     Solitons; Underwater acoustics; Internal waves 
    Abstract
    As part of the Shallow Water Acoustics in a Random Medium (SWARM) experiment [1], a sixteen element WHOI vertical line array (WVLA) was moored in 70 meters of water off the New Jersey coast. This array was sampled at 1395 Hz or higher for the seven days it was deployed. Tomography sources with carrier frequencies of 224 and 400 Hz were moored about 32 km shoreward, such that the acoustic path was anti-parallel to the primary propagation direction for shelf generated internal wave solitons. Two models for the propagation of normal modes through a 2-D waveguide with solitary internal wave (soliton) scattering included are developed to help in understanding the very complicated mode arrivals seen at the WVLA. The simplest model uses the Preisig and Duda [2] sharp interface approximation for solitons, allowing for rapid analysis of the effects of various numbers of solitons on mode arrival statistics. The second model, using SWARM thermistor string data to simulate the actual SWARM waveguides, is more realistic, but much slower. The analysis of the actual WVLA data yields spread, bias, wander, and intensity fluctuation signals that are modulated at tidal frequencies. The signals are consistent with predicted relationships to the internal wave distributions in the waveguides.
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    Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution June 1997
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    Thesis: Headrick, Robert H., "Analysis of internal wave induced mode coupling effects on the 1995 SWARM experiment acoustic transmissions", 1997-06, DOI:10.1575/1912/5730, https://hdl.handle.net/1912/5730
     

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