Observed ocean acoustic wavefronts show surprising stability in long range acoustic transmission experiments. This suggests that ocean scattering processes tend to re-distribute acoustic energy dominantly along the wavefront rather than across it. The purpose of this thesis is to elucidate the physical mechanism for this type of scattering by presenting a ray based physical model. Analytic formulae are presented that predict wavefront distortions caused by ocean internal waves and other ...
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