Accession Number:
ADA052890
Title:
Extensions of the Parabolic Equation Model for High-Angle Bottom-Interacting Paths,
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Corporate Author:
SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INC MCLEAN VA
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Report Date:
1977-12-31
Pagination or Media Count:
27.0
Abstract:
Hence the specific problem of interest is the propagation of high angles over large distances where the energy is refracted in the ocean-bottom sediments rather than reflected from a hard interface. The principal difficulty with PE in such geometries is that a steep angle effectively propagates with the period of a shallower angle since the horizontal component of its phase velocity is less than it should be. Hence the ray period, or cycle distance, is too large. For water-borne paths this problem was largely removed by CMOD. The relaxation of the CMOD convergence-zone constraint permits certain liberties to be taken with the sound-speed profile in the bottom which could not be considered in the water column.
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Subject Categories:
- Acoustics