Abstract

The shallow water Canada Basin Acoustic Propagation Experiment (SW CANAPE) was conducted to study the effects of oceanographic variability on broadband acoustic fields in the Arctic. The physics of the acoustic waveguide on the northeastern edge of the Chukchi Shelf are influenced by dynamic boundary conditions and spatio-temporal fluctuations in the water column temperature and salinity profiles. Several oceanographic and acoustic receiving arrays were deployed across the Chukchi Shelf out to the shelf break region. Linear frequency modulated (LFM) signals were transmitted by two sources on the shelf for a long period of time. The influence of small scale, short-term water column variability, and dynamic upper boundary conditions including open water, marginal, and solid ice zones on shallow water propagation is shown for a 10 km source-receiver separation with well-defined water column properties measured at the source, receiver, and a mid-point along the cross-shelf acoustic path. [Work supported by ONR 321OA.]

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