Bill Carey and sound attenuation in marine sediments

2014 
Experiments carried out by Bill Carey in the Hudson Canyon off the New Jersey coast provided a great wealth of data for the study of low frequency sound propagation in shallow water. His analysis of the transmission loss data, reported in a series of papers dating from the mid 1990s, indicated a non linear frequency dependence of sound attenuation in the sediment material. This work provided a large base of experimental evidence for the non linear dispersion predicted by the Biot theory of sound propagation in porous media, and it stimulated new studies on sound propagation in marine sediments by many researchers, including Bill Carey himself. This paper reviews the results obtained by Carey from the Hudson Canyon experiments and places them in the context of new results from more recent experiments using different techniques and observables. Analysis of results from the new work indicates that Carey's observation of non linear frequency dependence in sediment material in the Hudson Canyon applies to atte...
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