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Toward ocean attenuation tomography: Determining acoustic volume attenuation coefficients in seawater using eigenray
J D Tippmann1, J Sarkar1, C M A Verlinden1
1Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla California 92093-0238, USA jtippman@ucsd.edu, bsarkar@ucsd.edu, cmverlin@ucsd.edu, whodgkiss@ucsd.edu, wkuperman@ucsd.edu.
Abstract:
A deep-water experiment in the Pacific made in situ measurements of the volume attenuation coefficients of sea water in the mid-frequency range. The frequency, temperature, salinity, pH, and pressure dependent seawater attenuation coefficients were determined using a vertical line array that received and identified over 2000 unique paths from 1200 mid-frequency 3-9 kHz LFM source transmissions at a convergence zone range and depth up to 400 m. The results show no change in attenuation coefficients in this band compared to estimates from 30-year-old models previously determined from a combination of long-range ocean acoustic and laboratory experiments. The inversion also explores the feasibility of ocean acoustic attenuation tomography to further separate the depth-dependent chemical components responsible for the total attenuation loss through by isolating a group of deep-water refracting acoustic paths.
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