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Appendix B: Glossary of Terms

Absorption: loss of acoustic energy due to conversion to heat.

Accreditation: the ofcial certication that a model or simulation is acceptable for

a specic purpose.

Acoustic daylight: imaging of underwater objects using the ambient-noise eld.

Acoustic impedance: characteristic acoustic impedance is quantitatively equal to

the product of the density and sound speed of the medium.

Acoustic tomography: inverse technique that uses acoustic signals to sample the

interior of a water body.

Acoustical oceanography: describes the role of the ocean as an acoustic medium by

relating oceanic properties to the behavior of underwater ...