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The paper presents the results of an experimental study of spatial attenuation of low-frequency vector-scalar sound fields in shallow water. The experiments employed a towed pneumatic cannon and spatially separated four-component vector-scalar receiver modules. Narrowband analysis of received signals made it possible to estimate the attenuation coefficients of the first three modes in the frequency of range of 26–182 Hz and calculate the frequency dependences of the sound absorption coefficients in the upper part of bottom sediments. We analyze the experimental and calculated (using acoustic calibration of the waveguide) laws of the drop in sound pressure and orthogonal vector projections of the oscillation velocity. It is shown that the vertical projection of the oscillation velocity vector decreases significantly faster than the sound pressure field.
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Original Russian Text © A.I. Belov, G.N. Kuznetsov, 2017, published in Akusticheskii Zhurnal, 2017, Vol. 63, No. 6, pp. 614–622.
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Belov, A.I., Kuznetsov, G.N. Spatial attenuation of different sound field components in a water layer and shallow-water sediments. Acoust. Phys. 63, 652–659 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063771017050037
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