Laboratory Experiments on Sound Propagation in a Continuously Stratified Ocean Containing Internal Gravity Waves

Friday, January 30, 2015 4:00pm in ETC 4.150 Dr. Likun Zhang Center for Nonlinear Dynamics The University of Texas at Austin http://chaos.utexas.edu/people/post-docs/likun-zhang The speed of sound in the ocean varies with temperature, salinity, and pressure over the entire ocean depth. This variation results in a sound speed profile that supports a sound channel for transmitting…