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Using Rigorous Ray Tracing to Incorporate Reflection into the Parabolic Approximation

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We present a parabolic approximation that incorporates reflection. With this approximation, there is no need to solve the parabolic equation for a coupled pair of solutions consisting of the incident and reflected waves. Rather, this approximation uses a synthetic wave whose spectral components manifest the incident and reflected waves.

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@article{arxiv.physics/9909001,
  title  = {Using Rigorous Ray Tracing to Incorporate Reflection into the Parabolic Approximation},
  author = {Edward R. Floyd},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/9909001},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

4 pages, LaTeX 2.09. No figures. Key words: ocean acoustics, parabolic approximation, parabolic equation, backscatter, propagation