Y. Stephan, X. Demoulin stephan@shom.fr
and demoulin@shom.fr
CMO - Service Hidrographique et Oceanographique de la Marine,
F-29275 Brest Cedex, France.
S.M. Jesus sjesus@ualg.pt
SiPLAB-FCT, Universidade do Algarve
PT-8000 Faro, Portugal
E. Ferreira Coelho oceanografia@hidrografico.pt
Instituto Hidrografico
PT-1000 Lisboa, Portugal
M.B. Porter porter@mpl.ucsd.edu
Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, NJIT,
Newark, NJ, USA.
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Ref.: in Journal of Acoustical Society of America,
Hawaii (USA), vol.100, No.4,
Pt.2, p.2613, December 1996.
Abstract : The INTIMATE (INternal Tide Impact Measured by
Acoustic Tomography Experiment) project is devoted to the study of
internal tides using acoustic tomography schemes. The first exploratory
experiment was carried out in June 96 on the continental shelf off the
coast of Portugal using a towed broadband acoustic source
(500-800 Hz) and a 4-hydrophone vertical array . Acoustic data were
collected for 5 days, including legs where the source ship was moving
and legs with the ship on station. Intensive environmental surveys
(XBT, CDT, bottom and hull-mounted ADCP, thermistor chain, bathymetry,
geoacoustic surveys) were also conducted. The purpose of this
presentation is to give preliminary results of acoustic data processing
and to evaluate the impact of internal tides on the acoustic
propagation in a shallow water environment. Future work will deal with
inversions in terms of sound speed and geoacoustic parameter estimation
[Work supported by SHOM-IH-UAL. The hydrophones array was provided by
the SACLANT Undersea research Center, La Spezia, Italy.]
ACKNOWLEDGMENT: this work was partially supported by the EU project MAS2-CT920022.