Affiliation:
1. Marine Physical Laboratory, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, California 92093-0238, USA
Abstract
An analysis of the plane wave reflection coefficient of the seabed, R, is developed for two upward-refracting sediment sound speed profiles: the two-parameter linear and the three-parameter inverse-square, both extending to infinite depth. For the linear profile, it turns out that | R| = 1, representing total reflection for all grazing angles and all frequencies, signifying that in this special case, | R| is insensitive to the gradient. The implication is that if | R| is to return information about the shape of a profile, the gradient must change with depth, either smoothly through the presence of second- and/or higher-order depth derivatives or discontinuously at, say, an interface between sediment layers. The inverse-square is an example of a profile with a smoothly varying gradient, for which a general, closed-form expression for R is derived, valid for all grazing angles and all frequencies. When the sound speed ratio is less than unity, representative of a fine-grained sediment (mud), | R| exhibits two frequency regimes, designated high and low, separated by a transition frequency, fT. In each of these regimes, | R| exhibits a frequency-dependent angle of intromission, which exhibits high- and low-frequency limiting values, differing by approximately 3.5°, depending on the geo-acoustic parameters of the sediment.
Publisher
Acoustical Society of America (ASA)
Subject
Acoustics and Ultrasonics,Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
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