The developments in the field of ocean acoustics over recent years make this book an important reference for specialists in acoustics, oceanography, marine biol

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The continents of our planet have already been exploited to a great extent. Therefore man is turning his sight to the vast spaciousness of the ocean whose resou

Shallow water acoustics (SWA), the study of how low and medium frequency sound propagates and scatters on the continental shelves of the worlds oceans, has both