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The experimental data on the sound field structure, which were obtained by emitting a continuous pseudonoise signal (a midfrequency of 3.2 kHz) in a two-channel oceanic waveguide, are compared with the calculations performed by the wave program with allowance for the fine structure of the sound speed inhomogeneities. A considerable increase in the intensity of the sound field with a definite angular spectrum is observed in the upper channel in the first shadow zone, and, in the experiment, the increase begins nearer to the sound source than predicted by the wave and ray calculations for a smooth sound speed profile. These features of the field structure are explained by the illumination of the shadow zone by the regular scattering of signals from highly anisotropic fine-structure inhomogeneities of the sound speed profile, which are clearly pronounced in the region of the given oceanic experiment.
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Original Russian Text © O.P. Galkin, V.S. Gostev, O.E. Popov, L.V. Shvachko, R.F. Shvachko, 2006, published in Akusticheskiĭ Zhurnal, 2006, Vol. 52, No. 3, pp. 306–313.
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Galkin, O.P., Gostev, V.S., Popov, O.E. et al. Illumination of the shadow zone in a two-channel oceanic waveguide with a fine structure of sound speed inhomogeneities. Acoust. Phys. 52, 252–258 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063771006030031
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