ACOUSTIC TRANSMISSION ATTENUATION CAUSED BY RANDOM SURFACE

Assuming that the rough surface is a stationary process with a normal distribution,the scat-tering of a plane acoustic wave by this surface is studied.The statistical mean of the reflection coef-ficient and its relation to the correlation radius of the random surface have been discussed.By in-troducing the concept of"the equivalent reflecting plane",a general formula for a field with apoint source in a stratified medium which has a random surface is derived.This demonstrates an easysolution to the additional attenuation coefficient under various sea conditions.The additional attenua-tion coefficients of the normal modes in the surface duct are given in detail.