Heard Island Feasibility Test sound transmissions were received at sea some 300 km southwest of the Cape of Good Hope on a four‐hydrophone vertical array deployed from the vessel SAS Umzimkulu. This area, 53‐min travel time along the Atlantic path from Heard Island, lay immediately down path from strong regional variability in the acoustic properties of the SOFAR channel, associated with the retroflection of the Agulhas current. Many transmissions were not received at all whilst the four successful recordings exhibited a relatively high transmission loss. It appears that interaction between a warm water Agulhas ring and the local seamount bathymetry may have been responsible for the deterioration in the HIFT signal received off Cape Town and at other sites further along the Atlantic path. Nevertheless, the overall quality of these received signals with respect to phase stability and intensity was sufficient for the standard HIFT signal processing to be carried out.
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October 01 1994
Heard Island signals through the Agulhas retroflection region
G. B. Brundrit;
G. B. Brundrit
Department of Oceanography, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7700, South Africa
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L. Krige
L. Krige
Institute for Maritime Technology, P.O. Box 181, Simon’s Town 7995, South Africa
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J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 96, 2464–2468 (1994)
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Received:
August 20 1992
Accepted:
June 07 1994
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G. B. Brundrit, L. Krige; Heard Island signals through the Agulhas retroflection region. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 1 October 1994; 96 (4): 2464–2468. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.410119
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