Observations of the space/time scales of Beaufort sea acoustic duct variability and their impact on transmission loss via the mode interaction parameter

TittelObservations of the space/time scales of Beaufort sea acoustic duct variability and their impact on transmission loss via the mode interaction parameter
PublikasjonstypeJournal Article
Utgivelseår2023
ForfattereKucukosmanoglu, M, Colosi, JC, Worcester, PF, Dzieciuch, M, Sagen, H, Duda, TF, Gordon, ZW, W., MC, Richards, EL
TidsskriftJournal of the Acoustical Society of America
Volum153
ISSN0001-4966
Sammendrag

The Arctic Ocean is undergoing dramatic changes in response to increasing atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases. The 2016–2017 Canada Basin Acoustic Propagation Experiment was conducted to assess the effects of the changes in the sea ice and ocean structure in the Beaufort Gyre on low-frequency underwater acoustic propagation and ambient sound. An ocean acoustic tomography array with a radius of 150 km that consisted of six acoustic transceivers and a long vertical receiving array measured the impulse responses of the ocean at a variety of ranges every four hours using broadband signals centered at about 250 Hz. The peak-to-peak low-frequency travel-time variability of the early, resolved ray arrivals that turn deep in the ocean was only a few tens of milliseconds, roughly an order of magnitude smaller than observed in previous tomographic experiments at similar ranges, reflecting the small spatial scale and rel- ative sparseness of mesoscale eddies in the Canada Basin. The high-frequency travel-time fluctuations were approxi- mately 2ms root-mean-square, roughly comparable to the expected measurement uncertainty, reflecting the low internal-wave energy level. The travel-time spectra show increasing energy at lower frequencies and enhanced semidi- urnal variability, presumably due to some combination of the semidiurnal tides and inertial variability.

DOI10.1121/10.0019335
Refereed DesignationRefereed
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