This book is an important reference for specialists in acoustics, oceanography, marine biology, and related fields. The book encourages a new generation of scientists, engineers, and entrepreneurs to apply the modern methods of acoustical physics to probe the unknown sea. The book would be used both as a text for college-level courses and as a handbook for practicing scientists and engineers.

Written by internationally recognized scientists, the book provides background to measure ocean parameters and processes, find life and objects in the sea, communicate underwater, and survey the boundaries of the sea.
The book explains principles of underwater sound propagation, and describes how both actively probing sonars and passively listening hydrophones can reveal what the eye cannot see over vast ranges of the turbid ocean.
This book demonstrates how to use acoustical remote sensing, variations in sound transmission, in situ's acoustical measurements, and computer and laboratory models to identify the physical and biological parameters and processes in the sea.
The book contains techniques to solve the direct problems, solutions of inverse problems, and an extensive bibliography from the earliest use of sound in the sea to present references.

• Offers an integrated, modern approach to passive and active underwater acoustics
• Contains many examples of laboratory scale models of ocean-acoustic environments, as well as descriptions of experiments at sea
• Covers remote sensing of marine life and the seafloor
• Includes signal processing of ocean sounds, physical and biological noises at sea, and inversions
• resents sound sources, receivers, and calibration
• Explains high intensities; explosive waves, parametric sources, cavitation, shock waves, and streaming
• Covers microbubbles from breaking waves, rainfall, dispersion, and attenuation
• Describes sound propagation along ray paths and caustics
• Presents sound transmissions and normal mode methods in ocean waveguides


Table of Contents
Series Preface
Author Preface
Acknowledgments
1 The Realm of Acoustical Oceanography; Theory and Applications of Ocean Acoustics
2 Sound Propagation
3 Transmissions Along Ray Paths
4 Sources and Receivers
5 High Intensities
6 Processing of Ocean Sounds
7 Sound Scattered by a Body
8 Bubbles
9 Biomass Echoes, Reverberation, and Scattering Models
10 Sonar Systems: Measurements and Inversions
11 Waveguides: Plane Layers and Wedges
12 Scattering at Elements of a Rough Surface
13 Scattering and Transmission at Statistically Rough Surfaces
14 Mapping the Sea Floor
References
Symbols
Subject Index
Color Imgs

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