12: 3d Acoustic Mapping of the Kuroshio (Taiwan Current) Off the Southeast Coast of Taiwan
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Ocean acoustic tomography (OAT) is a powerful tool that can estimate the structure of sound speed (mainly proportional to temperature) and current in the ocean (Munk et al., 1995). Other than coastal sea studies (e.g., Park and Kaneko, 2000), most previous experiments have been carried out in the open ocean, characterized with a full structure of the underwater sound channel (Worcester, 1985; Cornuelle et al., 1985; Howe et al., 1987; Cornuelle et al., 1993; Dushaw et al., 1994; Send et al., 1995; Dushaw et al., 1995; Yuan et al., 1999). However its application to shallower regions with a sound speed profile (SSP) decreasing toward the bottom from the surface was limited because of the difficulty of ray resolvability (DeFerrari and Nguyen, 1986). The same reason leads to its infrequent application to the western boundary current regions, located along the continental slopes.
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