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Does multibeam sonar function well in the presence of temperature/salinity stratification layers in the water column? I don't have the first clue about sonar,

Does multibeam sonar function well in the presence of temperature/salinity stratification layers in the water column? I don't have the first clue about sonar, but as someone who crunches data for environmental assessments, stratification occasionally plays hell with a lot of chemical & biological models.

breatheoften 7y ago
Those layers are why you need to measure the sound speed profile -- speed of sound as a function of depth. The variation in sound speed in the water column affects not only the travel time of acoustic energy -- but also the path -- (snell's law).
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