High-Frequency Broadband Acoustic Scattering from Temperature and Salinity Microstructure: From Non-Linear Internal Waves to Estuarine Plumes
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Goal 3: To analyze the data and compare the results to predictions based on existing physics-based scattering models with input parameters determined from almost coincident “direct” microstructure measurements. To use the measured broadband scattered spectra to determine regions in which the scattering is dominated by turbulence versus biology. In regions where the scattering is dominated by turbulence, to extract turbulence dissipation rates. To investigate possible anisotropy in the scattering by comparing the acoustic backscattering from side-looking deployments and down-looking deployments. (FY2006-2007, work in progress)
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