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dc.contributor.authorEdon, Robert Alexander
dc.date.accessioned2017-12-21T23:12:16Z
dc.date.available2017-12-21T23:12:16Z
dc.date.issued2015-12
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11122/8042
dc.descriptionMaster's Project (M.S.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2015en_US
dc.description.abstractThis study investigates an infrasound propagation model created by the National Center for Physical Acoustics (NCPA) which is applied to atmospheric data with a strong temperature inversion in the lower atmosphere. This temperature inversion is believed to be the primary cause of a dispersed infrasonic signal recorded by an infrasound sensor array located on the Southern California coast in August, 2012. The received signal is characterized by initial low frequency content followed by a high frequency content tail. It is shown the NCPA model is hindered by limited atmospheric data and no ground truth for the source function which generated the received signal. The results of the NCPA model are shown to not reproduce the recorded signal and provide inconclusive evidence for infrasonic dispersion.en_US
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.subjectInfrasonic wavesen_US
dc.subjectPropagationen_US
dc.subjectCalifornia, Southernen_US
dc.subjectTemperature inversionsen_US
dc.subjectEigenfunction expansionsen_US
dc.titleInvestigation of strongly ducted infrasonic dispersion using a vertical eigenfunction expansion of the Helmholtz equation in a modal broad band acoustic propagation codeen_US
dc.typeMaster's Projecten_US
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dc.identifier.departmentDepartment of Physics
dc.contributor.chairOlson, John V.
dc.contributor.committeeFee, David E.
dc.contributor.committeeSzuberla, Curt A.
refterms.dateFOA2020-03-05T14:55:12Z


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