Low-frequency sound absorption and attenuation in marine medium

Original experimental data are analyzed on the low-frequency sound attenuation in the Mediterranean, Black, and Baltic Seas, Sea of Japan, and the north-western region of the Pacific Ocean. In these regions, waters significantly differ in their temperatures and salinities. The analysis is aimed at obtaining an expression for calculating the low-frequency absorption coefficient in sea water. The analysis uses the previously published data on the measured (by the temperature discontinuity method) low-frequency relaxation times associated with boron present in sea water. The dependence of the absorption on the pH value (which was revealed in the 1970s) and the experimental data on sound absorption at frequencies higher than 5–10 kHz are also taken into account. As a result of the analysis based on the assumption that low-frequency relaxation takes place, an expression is proposed that relates the low-frequency absorption to the temperature, salinity, and pH value and equally well describes the experimental frequency dependences of attenuation for the four regions at hand (except for the Baltic Sea). Increased attenuation coefficients are noticed for shallow seas and deep-water regions where waters are influenced by intense currents, strait zones, and zones of mixing waters of different origin, i.e., for the ocean areas where, in addition to the attenuation, sound scattering by inhomogeneities of the marine medium and sound energy leakage into the sea floor are significant.     

海洋光学浮标的设计及应用试验

海洋光学浮标在水色遥感现场辐射定标和数据真实性检验、海洋科学观测、近海海洋环境监测等方面有重要应用价值。采用子母浮标技术设计了海洋光学浮标系统,该系统可同步测量海面和海水近表层及真光层的光谱辐照度和光谱辐亮度分布、水体光谱吸收/散射系数,以及风速风向等辅助参数。浮标利用GPS定位,采用低功耗的PC104嵌入式电脑作为控制核心实现数据的自动采集,采用CDMA/GPRS无线网络与海事卫星两种方式实现数据和指令的实时传输。近海试验表明,设计的子母浮标能较好地满足水下光辐射测量对浮标姿态和稳性的要求,系统的数据采集和远程传输技术可靠,光学仪器防污染技术能确保光学浮标长期有效地工作。     

海洋混合悬浮颗粒对蓝绿激光的散射特性研究

激光在水下的传输很大程度上会受到海水中悬浮颗粒物的影响,而目前对于海洋中悬浮颗粒物光散射的理论研究大多是针对单一成分的悬浮粒子而进行的,但是在真实海洋中悬浮颗粒物都是以多种成分混合的颗粒群形式而存在的,因此研究真实海洋中混合悬浮颗粒物对蓝绿激光的散射特性具有重要意义。该研究选取了对蓝绿激光传输产生较大影响的浮游藻类植物、悬浮泥沙、碎屑、悬浮气泡和矿物质这五种常见的悬浮颗粒物作为研究对象,充分考虑真实海况中这五种悬浮颗粒物的不同混合情况,构建了海水中混合球形悬浮颗粒物对蓝绿激光的散射特性模型。数值计算了海水中五种物质混合的球形悬浮颗粒物对532 nm蓝绿激光的统计平均光散射参量和平均散射相函数,分析不同混合悬浮颗粒物的混合比对平均散射、吸收和消光系数以及单次反照率随着粒子有效半径和粒子数浓度变化的影响,同时分析了不同粒子尺寸下的不同混合比对混合悬浮颗粒物的平均散射相函数随着角度变化的影响。数值结果表明,当悬浮泥沙在整个混合模型中占比越大时,平均散射系数越大,而当悬浮藻类粒子在整个混合模型中占比增大时,平均吸收系数增大,由此可知海洋中对光造成主要影响的五种常见悬浮颗粒物中,悬浮泥沙对光散射作用影响最大,悬浮藻类粒子对光吸收作用影响最大。随着悬浮颗粒物浓度的增大,混合粒子的单次反照率保持不变,由此可知混合悬浮颗粒物的平均光散射参量随着粒子浓度的增长速率是一致的。海洋中混合悬浮颗粒物的平均散射相函数随着粒子的有效半径的增大而增大,散射作用最大的混合比下的悬浮颗粒物其平均散射相函数最大,悬浮颗粒物的前向散射较强。该工作对蓝绿激光在海水中传输、信道建模,水下无线光通信的研究以及激光探测都具有重要的理论指导意义。     

近海机载激光海洋测深技术

本文详细论述机载激光海洋测深的基本原理;讨论机载蓝绿激光的最大探测深度及测深精度等关键指标;对高频率短冲脉激光器及大动态范围的微弱信号检测等关键技术也进行了论述;并简要介绍该技术的国内外发展动态,最后分析机载激光海洋测深技术在我国的现实需要及可行性。     

含泡沫面元模型的海面电磁散射研究

传统计算海面电磁散射的方法都是通过求集平均的方法来统计得到不同输入参数下海面总回波系数的均值曲线,并不需要具体的几何样本.随着合成孔径雷达以及雷达成像的发展,为了充分描述海面各点的分布特征,需要得到海面具体面元的散射结果,同时随着海面上方风速的增大,海面泡沫层的出现会对散射结果产生相当大的影响.本文采用海面模型面元化的思想,将海面散射的贡献面元化,同时考虑泡沫层对大入射角下散射结果的影响,计算了不同风速下海面的后向散射系数,并与实测数据做对比分析,验证了方法的准确性.     

随机取向气溶胶凝聚粒子光学特性研究

利用Cluster-cluster aggregation (CCA)模型,模拟了由64个球形原始微粒凝聚而成的四种随机取向气溶胶凝聚粒子。结合离散偶极子近似方法,分别得到了不同入射角和不同尺寸参数情况下气溶胶凝聚粒子的吸收、散射、消光效率因子和不对称因子的数值结果,并比较分析了四种形状气溶胶凝聚粒子吸收、散射、消光效率因子和不对称因子的差异。结果显示：对于相同数目原始微粒的气溶胶凝聚粒子,其光学特性明显依赖于入射光的入射角度和气溶胶凝聚粒子的形状;对于不同尺寸参数的气溶胶凝聚粒子,当入射光波长给定时,吸收、散射和消光效率因子最初随尺寸参数增大而快速增大,随后又随尺寸参数增大缓慢变小,但在尺寸参数变化过程中存在一个极大值;不对称因子则随尺寸参数的增大一直呈增大趋势,且随尺寸参数的增大趋近于1。     

机载激光测深海洋传输通道的吸收和散射特性分析

光在海洋中的传输特性对于机载激光测深有着重要的意义.本文从分析海水对光的吸收和散射的特性出发,对机载激光测深的海洋传输特性进行了细致的讨论,并阐述了其对机载激光测深的影响.     

Concentrated suspension theory of sound attenuation in marine sediments—linear dependence of absorption coefficient on frequency

Statistical averages of acoustic scattering and attenuation in sea bed sediments, and of the corresponding sea bed absorption coefficients, are obtained. The multiple scattering interactions among the particles in concentrated suspension are taken into account. The suspensions are assumed to be a collection of spherical particles of various sizes, and for which the masses corresponding to various radii follow a normal distribution. The numerical results obtained show that the absorption coefficient has a linear dependence on frequency if there is a sufficiently broad distribution of the particle radii. However, if βR ? 1, where R is particle radius and β is the viscous wavenumber, the absorption may be proportional to the frequency raised to a power higher than unity. Comparisons of results with some published experimental data are presented.     

Absorption and scattering effects of Maalox,chlorophyll, and sea salt on a micro-LED-based underwater wireless optical communication [Invited]

In this work, a blue gallium nitride(GaN) micro-light-emitting-diode(micro-LED)-based underwater wireless optical communication(UWOC) system was built, and UWOCs with varied Maalox, chlorophyll, and sea salt concentrations were studied. Data transmission performance of the UWOC and the influence of light attenuation were investigated systematically. Maximum data transmission rates at the distance of 2.3 m were 933, 800, 910,and 790 Mbps for experimental conditions with no impurity, 200.48 mg/m~3 Maalox, 12.07 mg/m~3 chlorophyll,and 5 kg/m~3 sea salt, respectively, much higher than previously reported systems with commercial LEDs. It was found that increasing chlorophyll, Maalox, and sea salt concentrations in water resulted in an increase of light attenuation, which led to the performance degradation of the UWOC. Further analysis suggests two light attenuation mechanisms, e.g., absorption by chlorophyll and scattering by Maalox, are responsible for the decrease of maximum data rates and the increase of bit error rates. Based on the absorption and scattering models,excellent fitting to the experimental attenuation coefficient can be achieved, and light attenuation by absorption and scattering at different wavelengths was also investigated. We believe this work is instructive apply UWOC for practical applications.     

Scattering of Radiation of the Sun and the Sky from Two Dimensional Rough Sea Surfaces

The scattering of optical wave from two dimensional rough sea surfaces is studied first with method of facets. The sea surface is divided into many facets, and each facet is treated as a surface with small roughness instead of a smooth plane, therefore more practical and effective. In addition the shadowing function of sea surfaces for arbitrary incident and scattering angles is numerically calculated with the Z-BUFFER method, which applies to any kinks of rough surfaces compared with the methods available. Finally the spectral irradiance of the sun and the spectral radiance of the sky for different time at sea level with fine weather are obtained with the software of Lowtran7, and the scattering of the radiation of the sun and the sky from two dimensional rough sea surfaces for different time, waveband and wind speed is studied, which is of great reference value for reducing the interference to the infrared detector due to the scattering of the radiation of the sun and the sky from sea surfaces.     

基于双光路原理的海水IOPs高光谱测量仪方案

设计了基于双光路原理的海水固有光学参数测量仪。该仪器可同步测量水体光谱吸收系数a、光束衰减系数c和体散射系数b。其中吸收系数a采用反射式吸收管测量,光束衰减系数c采用全吸收式样品池测量,体散射系数b根据c=a+b计算。光信号由光纤收集、光谱仪分光后用CCD探测器测量。光谱分辨率为4nm,灵敏度为0 001m-1。该仪器直接在水下工作,由水泵抽取被测海水,水下最大工作深度为200m。测量数据可以自动记录,同时也可以通过水下电缆实时传输到调查船实验室。     

双基地冰-水界面混响强度的理论预报

针对北极冰层冰水界面具有小尺度粗糙界面的情况,给出由冰层造成的混响平均强度的理论预报公式。首先将北极冰层等效为具有粗糙界面的弹性介质,并且采用小粗糙度微扰理论在精细拟合粗糙度谱的基础上,建立粗糙冰层的三维散射强度模型,然后建立三维双基地声呐几何模型确定有效散射区域,最后给出双基地冰下混响平均强度的估算公式,并在所拟合的粗糙度谱的情况下,利用该预报公式计算双基地声呐配置参数和海冰物理及声学特性对冰下混响强度的影响算例。数值仿真表明该公式能够估算出北极冰下双基地声呐产生的混响平均强度,并且分析出了时延、基线长度等声呐配置参数和冰层声速比、密度比等海冰物理参数会对混响强度造成的影响。声呐的配置参数主要影响散射的有效面积,海冰的物理参数则影响着冰层的散射强度。其中,冰层声速比不仅影响混响强度的大小,还会影响混响强度随时间的衰减速度。      

A Polydisperse Sphere Model Describing the Propagation of Light in Biological Tissue

A polydisperse sphere model with the complex refractive index is employed to describe the propagation of light in biological tissue. The scattering coefficient, absorption coefficient and scattering phase function are calculated. At the same time, the inverse problem on retrieving the particles size distribution, imaginary part of the refractive index and number density of scatterers is investigated. The result shows that the retrieval scheme together with the Chahine algorithm is effective in dealing with such an inverse problem. It is also clarified that a group of parameters including the scattering coefficient, absorption coefficient and phase function are associated with another group including the refractive index, particle size distribution and number density of scatterers, which is a problem described in two different ways and the anisotropy factor is not an independent variable, but is determined by the phase function.     

浅海起伏海面下气泡层对声传播的影响

分析了起伏海面下风浪引起的气泡层对海面反射损失和对声传播的影响.一方面,气泡层会改变原来水中的声速剖面;另一方面,气泡层会对声波产生散射和吸收作用.考虑以上两方面的因素,分析了不同风速下气泡层对海面反射损失和声传播损失的影响,仿真发现,在风速大于10 m/s时,对于2 k Hz以上频率时气泡层对小掠射角下海面反射损失的影响不可忽视.在给定的水声环境中,当声源深度和接收深度都为7 m时,风速为16 m/s的风浪下生成的气泡层,在10 km处对3 k Hz的声传播损失的影响达到8.1 d B.当声源深度和接收深度都为18 m时,风速为16 m/s的风浪下生成的气泡层,在10 km处对3 k Hz的声传播损失的影响达到4 d B.     

由吸收系数和粒度分布计算浮游植物的散射光谱特征

散射特性在水色卫星遥感模式的开发、水下光辐射传输、优势藻光谱特征的提取以及赤潮监测等方面有着重要的应用价值.在假定藻细胞为均匀球形结构的条件下,建立了浮游植物的散射正演模型.模型输入参量为实际测量的藻细胞吸收系数和粒度分布,输出参量为浮游植物的散射效率和吸收效率光谱.对短伪海链藻和威氏海链藻进行实验,模拟结果与实验结果的比较发现:该模型估箅得到的散射光谱能与实验的散射光谱得到很好的吻合,两种藻的模拟散射效率相对实验散射效率的误差分别为7%和10.6%,吸收效率的误差分别为7.4%和13.4%.模拟与实验结果的吻合表明,由吸收系数和粒度分布可以模拟出藻类的散射光谱特性.单细胞近似球形藻类散射正演模型可行.     

Acoustic propagation in the subsurface sound channel

Experimental data obtained in the kilohertz frequency band for the sound propagation in the subsurface channel formed by the wind-caused mixing of subsurface waters are discussed. The data were obtained in different years in the northeastern region of the Atlantic Ocean, where the subsurface waters down to the depths of 40–70 m are mixed by both wind waves and the swell that arrives from distant ocean areas. The hydrological conditions in the subsurface waters of this region are characterized by a good reproducibility. The spatial structure of the sound field and the attenuation of sound propagating in the subsurface channel are analyzed. The origin of the additional attenuation (in comparison with the absorption in sea water) is discussed. The data of our experiments are compared with those obtained by other experimenters and with the calculations performed using the computer code by Avilov. The necessity of improving the computer codes to allow for the scattering of sound beyond the channel under the influence of the swell, whose parameters are unrelated to the wind regime at the experimental site, is emphasized.     

界面混响的耦合简正波理论研究

利用耦合简正波理论分析了粗糙界面散射引起的混响。引入了粗糙海底以及海面引起的各个模态间的耦合系数表述粗糙界面对声场的散射过程。结合风浪谱Pierson模型,仿真了不同海况下的海面混响,重点在于分析不同海况下海面起伏对海底混响的影响。利用耦合系数的求解从粗糙海面引起模态间能量耦合的角度对这种影响进行了机理性的探究。结果表明,尽管在浅海中海底混响占支配性地位,但随着海况等级的增加,海面散射对海底混响是有影响的,而这种影响可以从粗糙界面对声波模态间的耦合进行机理分析。      

含卷浪Pierson-Moscowitz谱海面电磁散射研究

海尖峰的存在会导致雷达虚警概率的上升和多目标环境中检测性能下降,因此研究海尖峰现象意义重大.海尖峰现象的一个重要特点是海面的水平极化散射强度接近甚至大于垂直极化散射强度,卷浪被认为是产生海尖峰的一个原因.首先建立了卷浪和Pierson-Moscowitz谱海面的共同模型,利用矩量法研究了卷浪模型的水平和垂直后向电磁散射特征,包括入射频率、入射角、风速和风向对电磁散射特征的影响.发现在小擦地角情况和较大风速下超级现象(水平散射强度大于垂直极化散射强度)比较明显,从而推论出在小擦地角入射下产生海尖峰现象的概率较大.同时对时变卷浪在小擦地角入射时的海杂波幅值分布特性和多普勒谱进行了分析.     

Influence of ionospheric irregularities on the form of radio signal scattering spectrum in over-the-horizon radar sounding of the rough sea surface

Abstract

This paper is concerned with the backscattering of HF radio waves from the rough sea surface, which have propagated through the ionosphere with random large-scale irregularities.

For the sake of simplicity, it is assumed in calculations that the rough sea surface is a perfectly conducting surface with the known Philips power spectrum of irregularities. Ionospheric irregularities of a random medium that are isotropic and single-scale ones, with a Gaussian spectrum, are considered within the limits of the hypothesis of frozen-in irregularities.

Within the first approximation of perturbation theory, using, as the incident wave and the Green function, their geometrical-optics approximations, we obtained the expression for the backscattering spectrum of the ionospheric chirp radio signal with a Gaussian envelope. The expression involves the parameters of the receive–transmit antenna, the signal, the propagation medium, and of the scattering surface. Numerical simulation was used to investigate the influence of all the above-mentioned parameters on the backscattering spectrum. It is shown that travel of ionospheric irregularities has the largest influence on the scattering spectrum, the signal parameters mainly determine the size of the scattering area in the range, and the form of the coherent integration window determines the form of the received signal and can distort it.