Acoustical Effects of Internal Tides Acoustical Effects of Internal Tides on Shallow Water Propagation : an Overview of the Intimate96 Experiment

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  • Y. STÉPHAN
  • X. DÉMOULIN
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This paper presents an overview of the experiment INTIMATE96, carried out in June 1996 on the continental shelf off the coast of Portugal and discusses the effects of internal tides on the acoustic propagation. A towed broadband acoustic source and a 4-hydrophone vertical array were used. Acoustic data were collected for 5 days, including legs where the source ship was moving and legs with the ship on station. Intensive environmental surveys (XBT, CDT, bottom and hull-mounted ADCP, thermistor chain, bathymetry, geoacoustic characteristics of the sediments) were also conducted. The central

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تاریخ انتشار 1999