Acoustic Propagation in Continental Shelf Break and Slope Environments
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There were two main objectives of the current research. The first objective was to complete a final numerical implementation of a statistical inference approach based on a maximum entropy formalism. The second objective was to combine the waveguide parameter statistical inferences with geophysical data from the Shallow Water 2006 (SW06) experiment on the New Jersey continental shelf to model range-dependent acoustic data for the purpose of determining the bandwidth and range over which the effects of range-dependent inhomogenities in the sub bottom layering can be discerned.
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