Sketch by Leonardo da Vinci; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I. The Ocean Environment: 1. Ocean structure; 2. Planetary waves and eddies; 3. Linear internal waves; Part II. Introduction to Sound Transmission in the Ocean: 4. The ocean sound channel; 5. The wave equation; Part III. Sound Transmission Through a Fluctuating Ocean: 6. Transmission through a homogeneous, isotropic medium; 7. The ocean medium; 8. Statistics of acoustic signals; 9. Multipath effects and n-point Gaussian statistics; Part IV. Theory of Sound Transmission: 10. Supereikonal, or Rytov approximation; 11. Propagation through a single upper turning point; 12. Path integrals and propagation in saturated regimes; 13. The transport equation in sound scattering; Part V. Experimental Observations of Acoustic Fluctuations: Eleuthera–Bermuda; 15. Cobb seamount; 16. Azores; Epilogue; Appendices; Bibliography; Glossary of terms; Units, dimensions and glossary of symbols; Index.
This book attempts to connect the known structure of the ocean volume with experimental results in long-range sound transmission.
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