Ocean Acoustics Textbooks
[Frisk] Frisk, George V. Ocean and Seabed Acoustics: A Theory of Wave Propagation. Prentice Hall, 1994. ISBN: 9780136301127.
A complete beginning graduate level text on ray and (especially) mode techniques.
[COA] Jensen, Finn B., William A. Kuperman, et al. Computational Ocean Acoustics. Springer, 2011. ISBN: 9781441986771. [Preview with Google Books]
This is perhaps the most essential text for the "advanced ocean acoustics and numerical methods" part of this course.
[B&L] Brekhovskikh, L. M., and Yu. P. Lysanov. Fundamentals of Ocean Acoustics. Springer, 2010. ISBN: 9781441930156.
Another upper level text covering a wide range of topics in ocean acoustics and scattering.
[KP] Katznelson, Boris G. and Valery G. Petnikov. "Shallow Water Accoustics." Springer-Verlag, 2002. ISBN: 9781852331849.
The predecessor to the updated [FSWA] book, wth substantially different material.
[FSWA] Katsnelson, Boris G., Valery G. Petnikov, and James Lynch. Fundamentals of Shallow Water Acoustics. Springer, 2012. ISBN: 9781441997760. [Preview with Google Books]
[M&C] Medwin, Herman, and Clarence S. Clay. Fundamentals of Acoustical Oceanography (Applications of Modern Acoustics). Academic Press, 1997. ISBN: 9780124875708. [Preview with Google Books]
[OG] Ogilvy, J.A. "Theory of Wave Scattering From Random Rough Surfaces." Taylor & Francis, 1991. ISBN: 9780750300636.
A very good basic book on acoustic and electromagnetic wave scattering.
Inverse Textbooks
[ABT] Aster, Richard, Brian Borchers, and Clifford Thurber. Parameter Estimation and Inverse Problems. Academic Press, 2005. ISBN: 9780120887927.
A very nice basic text on linear techniques, as well as weakly non-linear and Bayesian techniques.
[Sounds] Medwin, Herman. Sounds in the Sea: from Ocean Acoustics to Acoustical Oceanography. Cambridge University Press, 2005. ISBN: 9780521829502. [Preview with Google Books]
The second part of this book, on new frontiers in acoustical oceanography, make it stand out from a "standard text."
[Mencke] Menke, William. Geophysical Data Analysis: Discrete Inverse Theory. Academic Press, 1989. ISBN: 9780124909212. [Preview with Google Books]
A great basic text.
If you have these books available, you have a nice basic library for ocean acoustics and acoustical oceanography.
| SES # | READINGS |
|---|---|
| Part I. Basics of Ocean Acoustics and Numerical Methods | |
| Fundamentals | |
| 1 |
Chapter 1: sections 1.3 and 1.4 in [Frisk]. Chapter 2: sections 2.1, 2.2, 2.3 and 2.4 in [Frisk]. |
| 2 | Chapter 3: sections 3.1, 3.2 and 3.3 (up to Eq. 3.38) in [Frisk]. |
| 3 | Chapter 4: Sections 4.1–4.7 in [Frisk]. |
| Ray Theory | |
| 4–5 |
Sections 1.1–1.4 in [COA]. Sections 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.3.1, 3.7, 3.7.1, 3.7.2, 3.3.5.2–3.3.5.4, 3.6.5 and 3.5 in [COA]. Chapter 7: 7.3 and 7.4 in [Frisk]. Halliday, David, Robert Resnick, and Kenneth S. Krane. "Fermats Principle." In Physics. Wiley, 2001. ISBN: 9780471401940. |
| Normal mode theory and wavenumber integration | |
| 6 | Chapter 5: 5.1, 5.2, 5.21, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.51 and 5.52 (just past equation 5.175) in [Frisk]. |
| 7 |
Chapter 4: Sections 4.8 and 4.7 in [Frisk]. Chapter 6: Section 6.1 in [Frisk]. Sections 5.11.3 and 5.11.4 in [COA]. 3.2 in [FSWA]. Myint-U, Tyn, and Lokenath Debnath. Sections 7.11 and 7.12 in Linear Partial Differential Equations for Scientists and Engineers. Birkhäuser, 2006. ISBN: 9780817643935. [Preview with Google Books] Sections 9.1, 9.1.1, 9.1.2, 9.1.3, 9.1.4, 9.1.5, 9.2, 9.2.1 and 9.2.2 in [M&C]. Tindle, C.T., A. P. Stamp, et al. "Virtual Modes and the Surface Boundary Condition in Underwater Acoustics." Sound and Vibration 49, no. 2 (1976): 231–40. |
| 8 |
Sections 5.13, 5.13.1, 5.9, 5.9.1 and 5.9.2 in [COA]. Sections 7.3 and 7.3.1 in [B&L]. Tindle, C. T., and J. K. Guthrie. "Rays as Interfering Modes in Underwater Acoustics." Sound and Vibration 34, no. 2 (1974): 291–5. |
| 9 | Sections 5.7, 5.7.1, 5.7.3, 5.7.4; 5.11, 5.11.1, 5.11.2; 4.5, 4.5.1, 4.5.2, 4.5.3 and 4.5.4 in [COA]. |
| Parabolic Equation—PE | |
| 10 |
Section 7.4 in [B&L]. Sections 6.2, 6.2.1, 6.2.2, 6.2.3, 6.4.1, 6.4.1.1, 6.6, 6.6.1 and 6.6.2 in [COA]. Chapter 6, Appendix 1 in in [COA]. |
| Assorted Topics of Interest | |
| 11 |
Sections 3.4.2, 3.4.3, 3.4.4, 8.2, 8.2.1, 8.2.2, 8.2.3, 8.4 and 8.5 in [FSWA]. Appendix A9 in [M&C]. |
| Rough Surface Scattering in a Nutshell | |
| 12 |
Sections 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.3.1, 9.3.2 and 9.7 in [B&L]. Tolstoy, Ivan S., and C. S. Clay. Section 6.9 in Ocean Acoustics. McGraw-Hill Education, 1967. ISBN: 9780070649415. |
| Part II. Acoustical Oceanography and Inverse Methods | |
| Acoustical Oceanography | |
| 13 | |
Acoustical Oceanography Instrumentation—Brief Overview | |
| 14 |
Chapters 18 and 22 Wikipedia article on RAFOS floats in [Sounds]. Watts, D. Randolph, and H. Thomas Rossby. "Measuring Dynamic Heights with Inverted Echo Sounders: Results from MODE." Physical Oceanography 7, no. 3 (1977): 345–58. Spain, Peter F., et al. "PEGASUS: A Simple, Acoustically Tracked Velocity Profiler." Deep Sea Research 28, no. 12 (1981): 1553–67. ADCP references from WHOI webpage |
| Inverse theory | |
| 15 |
Chapters 3, 4 and 7 in [ABT]. Sections 7.3 and 7.3.1 in [FSWA]. Appendix A in [Mencke]. Aki, Keeiti, and Paul G. Richards. Chapter 12 in Quantitative Seismology, vol 2. University Science Books, 2009, pp. 675–89. ISBN: 9781891389634. |
| 16 |
Chapter 11 in [ABT]. Dosso, and Holland. "Bayesian inversion of seabed reflection data." In Acoustic Sensing Techniques for the Shallow Water Environment: Inversion Methods and Experiments. Springer, 2006. ISBN: 9781402043727. Press, William H., Saul A. Teukolsky, et al. Numerical Recipes: The Art of Scientific Computing. Cambridge University Press, 2007. ISBN: 9780521880688. [Preview with Google Books] Section 10.9 MATLAB® Central webpage article on Simulated Annealing Wikipedia article on simulated annealing Wikipedia article on genetic algorithm , "Nonlinear Inversions for Ocean Bottom Properties." J. Acoust. Soc. Am 92, no. 5 (1992). |